Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

Nobody can teach me who I am.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

I teach literature. That's easy for me. Take someone else's work and talk about it.

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.