You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!

I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.

Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.

I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.