I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

You love someone, you've got to let something go.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

I'm not that much into working out. My philosophy - no pain no pain.

Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.

Beware of losing what isn't in your head.

I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.

Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you

If certain players do not carry out their tasks properly on the pitch then their colleagues will suffer.

Your mantra is thank you. Just keep saying thank you. Don't explain. Don't complain. Just say thank you. Say thank you to existence.

Someone's looking for a lead, in his duty to a king or creed. Protecting what he feels is right, fights against wrong with his life.

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?

I'm a health-food junkie, so all of my food is a splurge, money-wise!