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

If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.

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.

Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story.

WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

Courage is a muscle that develops through use. It's no use waiting for some inner fire to conveniently become apparent at the moment of crisis - that's cartoon stuff.

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.