If you can run around the corner and say hello to someone do that instead of emailing. It's always more rewarding; the connection is always more authentic. If you've got something to say and you can say it someone's face, it's so much better, healthier.

I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world.

Make sure you tell the people you love that you love them. Loudly and often. You never know when it might be too late.

I even feel grateful for the failures.

When a new project comes along, I want to know that the experience is going to be challenging and exciting. Part of me is going to be drawn to doing something new and also the satisfaction of intellectual curiosity.

South Sudan is the youngest nation on the planet.

It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.