Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

To failure at something is an attempt to succeed. Be strong and try again.

I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.

If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Don't fear tomorrow, till today's done with you.

I always tend to think my goals are beautiful goals. That is what I want to score; beautiful goals, and create beautiful chances for my team-mates.

It's interesting that stepping out of thought was actually triggered by a thought.

Word - that invisible dagger.

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it.