From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.

I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.

All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?

If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.

We can rarely tell others what we really think about them--not just because it would so wound them, but also because it would so wound ourselves.

Words matter, words have import.

We all want to fix things. Just as we all believe that so much in life can be rectified. Mend fences, build bridges, reach out, engage in mutual healing.