When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.

Birth is life's first lottery ticket.

Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.

We all make mistakes but one has to move on.

The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

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.