I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways.

Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we've ever wanted to be. No law can stop us reading.

One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.

You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.

The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing.

I’m proud to be a writer. I’m doing the job all my heroes did.

One man’s fight is another man’s freedom.

Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you.

No matter what the good boys tell you, criminality is not a level playing field.

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.

First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal – to build something no one had ever thought of before.

You can miss a person you've never known.

In the 70s, what thrash was there? Punk came on, and that was cool. But there was no thrash. There were dinosaur big bands, and that was great. Those were my influences.

If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.

I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania by now.

Success by its very nature demands a period of overcoming, a process by which we become strong in broken places.

I will totally accept the results [of Election 2016] if I win.

A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat.

3% of the problems have figures, 97% of the problems do not.