innocence is the hardest thing to prove.

All writing is a process of elimination.

Failure is never a reason not to try again.

It is a great blessing to be able to forget, but it takes a lot of wisdom to know what should be forgotten.

No fight is harder than the struggle against the thing you want most to believe.

when you start to bore yourself and others, that's when you begin to get old.

Scientists have a second brain where other people have their hearts.

There are as many jealousies in life as there are different flowers or trees or animals.

there are things you mustn't even try to explain. They either become trite or they tie you down to something that's only half true.

What would be achieved ever if people lost the ability to dream?

You are free only when you care for nobody in the world. But if you stop caring, life isn't worth living.

I read and write.

Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.

I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.

The Madiba song may have ended, but its melody lingers on.

I read the New York Times, and if I'm in a different city, I'll skim that paper.

My female protagonist will not be this promiscuous, beautiful, dark-haired, thin lady. It will be a plump, blond, healer and so forth.

There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.

I think everyone knows how much of a joint effort being in politics is. It requires all kinds of sacrifices and all kinds of support.