It was mind boggling to know that I would experience such betrayal at such a young age while others live their whole life without knowing what betrayal is

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.

Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced.

I may have mentioned patience wasn't one of my virtues. Actually, I didn't have many virtues but patience definitely wasn't one of them.

I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.

Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.

For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.

A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news.

You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader - in protecting yourself - that you made it up.

If Giggs was French, Pires or myself would have been on the bench.