I could never do just one thing, but everything I do is in the direction of stories. Sometimes writing them, sometimes showcasing them, sometimes letting people see them.

I started writing when I was a journalist. But every time I sat down to write a novel or a story, I ended up writing about myself, which was incredibly annoying and self-involved.

I think the secret of memoirs is keeping those parts of yourself off the page, which makes what you do share more valuable.

It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word

I'm the girl who never gets angry and never wants anything, and that's why my family is still alive.

Kissing the frog to get the prince is a waste of a perfectly good frog.

I walked across a bridge that doesn't exist. And after that, being scared just didn't seem so important anymore.

It's the same thing, I think, whether it's breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

Though it's thousands of miles away Sierra Leone connect to what we go through today Over here, its a drug trade, we die from drugs Over there, they die from what we buy from drugs

Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?

Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?

He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.