Birth is life's first lottery ticket.

Never be frightened by those you assume have more talent than you do, because in the end energy will prevail. My formula is: energy plus talent and you are a king; energy and no talent and you are still a prince; talent and no energy and you are a pauper.

I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.

Birth is life's first lottery ticket.

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

Energy plus talent and you are a king, energy and no talent and you are still a prince, talent and no energy and you are a pauper

Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.