The things we remember are often things that have great emotional importance, and so they have a lasting effect.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

If you aren't hurting after a good workout then obviously you haven't done something right

The word tomorrow was invented for indecisive people and for children.

Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.

No one will ever touch Elvis

The only way to know is to Live, Learn, and Grow

Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my neighbours.

It's not how you pick your nose, it's where you put that booger that counts.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.