You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.

Be unswervingly and eternally loyal to the story.

Within our whole universe the story only has the authority to answer that cry of heart of its characters, that one cry of heart of each of them: "Who am I?"

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.

I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

It is often the case with a new idea that when it comes knocking on society's door with modesty and the best premises for its existence, there is a tremendous outcry from inside.

I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.