My worst quality is impatience.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

I think that my work is my attempt, I suppose, is to try and become a piece of connective tissue. I'm trying to communicate with people here and in America - in rich countries - about what I see on the ground in badly affected areas

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.