If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.

Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.

Well, that's cricket Harry. These things happen in boxing

When I came into boxing, I brought it to the next level with adverts and doing pantomime and people just got jealous of me doing that.

Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day you die. I am trying so hard to break mine, but it is not easy. It is my toughest fight ever.

I was in a no-win situation, so I'm glad that I won rather than lost

I was about 18 six years ago. I'm 28 now.

But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

My trainer, George Francis, used to train a lot of African boxers. They're hungry guys, man. They've got no trainers, got nothing. They're so hungry to do boxing, to make some money.

Living happily is a matter of choosing to fulfill the positive demands of your inner-self over your societal expectations.

Prejudice begets prejudice, you see. Knowledge does not always evolve into wisdom.

It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.

Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it's those hours that make us what we are.

It was also wonderful to have the prospect of playing with Jack Nicholson. It was a terrific part, a terrific script, with Alexander Payne and Jack Nicholson. You can't get any better than that!

It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.

I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.

I'm coming to London next week, by the way, in unhappy circumstances. Are we getting on fine as we are? Or would you like a drink?

My main area of activism is the death penalty, and it will continue to be once this crisis is over with.