We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.

I'm really interested in people's decisions.

I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy.

Our own personal brand of courage - in relationships, in conflict, in our principles ­ - is as unique as our fingerprints.

I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.

We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.

There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.