If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.

Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.

We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become different in the questions that arise as we read, in the answers that we find, in the degree of satisfaction or unease we feel with those answers...In the hands of a different reader, the same story can be a different story.

My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.