It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.

I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.

When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you're never bored.

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.

I love you and it's getting worse.

self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

It's what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.

Do not think it impossible just because it has never happened.- Friar Tuck

If all our children learn to do is read, they will not be literate.

I love performing live, especially when I get in the zone. But the studio is really becoming a place I have grown to love.

I've lived through what seems to most - and myself - many lives.

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.

Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.