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.

There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

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

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

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

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