It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.

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.

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.

If you make a deal with a fool, don't be surprised when they act foolishly.

I have discovered with advancing years that few things are entirely black or white, but more often different shades of grey.

War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't.

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