Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.

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.

He feared at certain moments that the only new knowledge he would take away from this country was learning how to swim and use the telephone.

I am writing something very simple that will change you and change the world.

Life and Death is all about Swansong

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

That's what we're all looking for, the place where the work leads us.

I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.

What I do know is that traditional gender roles are very real and flipping the norm is difficult for even the strongest, funniest, smartest men.

My motto has always been that anybody can do it better than me.

Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.