It’s a trinity ring. Pink for love, yellow for fidelity and white for friendship. I liked the symbolism of three—you, me and baby-to-be.

For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

(...) and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.

You can’t go home again” ─ isn’t necessarily that places change but people do.

Chief Wimbe also loved his cat, which was black and white but had no name. In Malawi, only dogs are given names, I don't know why.

Kindness I've discovered is everything in life.

I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to feel what they feel when they're not.

Curiosity is its own suicide.

In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.

When I asked Imran Khan for an autograph he picked up his bat to hit me.