I find I don't learn a lot while I'm talking
Birth is life's first lottery ticket.
I want to be your stranger across a crowded room.
The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.
I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.
But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.