When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.

It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials of your mind and self. They become part of you while changing you. Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.