There is something unnatural about marriage. These two people are not going to be the same people in a few years. The trick is to live your own life while sharing the same space.

The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted.

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

I don't like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I'm aging so well.

You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care.

There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?

What makes divorce happen is that you can't be in the same space any more, for whatever reason - but the love stays. And that's the killer. That's where the vehemence and anger and rage comes from.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

Pay attention, behavior speaks… While preacher are telling you to pray for abundance, they’re passing around a basket.

You have to play the logic of a character.

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.

My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.

It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.

Not every ant which stays under the elephant's foot dies; the most powerful cannot always kill the weakest!

Respect, of course is a tricky term. I may respect your gardening by just letting you get on with it. Or, I may respect it by admiring it and regarding it as a superior way to garden.

My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.