“My wife is troubled by the things I forget. I am troubled by the things she recollects.”

“My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability, as a child, to lie with a straight face.”

“Stop worrying whether the grass is greener on the other side. Find out how to own the other side.”

“My life is ruled by four Ws: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whisky. Not necessarily in that order.”

“Thrills are much more about anticipation than action. An unfired bullet is more dangerous than one that has already met its target.”

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step unless you missed it.”

“I am the perfect version of me.”

“But if you tame me, then weshall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, Ishall be unique in all the world.”

“I don't want the world to keep turning without me on it.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“Permit no man to make a mockery of you just because you may not be proficient in something. Remember you are gifted no matter how insignificant it may be, it's your prized possession, value it”

“The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a ...”

“One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.”