I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.

Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.

Something I am now convinced of, after researching Everyone Brave, is that none of us is born courageous in all respects.

We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop to think about what it means.

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.

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