Both John F. Kennedy and Nelson Mandela use the same three-word phrase which in my mind says it all, which is ‘Freedom is indivisible. You can’t slice it up, otherwise it ceases to be freedom. You can dislike Charlie Hebdo … but the fact that you dislike them has nothing to do with their right to speak.

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.