If you bill something as a memoir, you're implying that everything in it is true.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

It's always easiest for me as a writer if I know I have a great ending. It can make everything else work. If you don't have a good ending, it's the hardest things in the world to come up with one. I always loved the ending of 'The Kite Runner,' and the scenes that are most faithful to the book are the last few scenes.

In business, we say that people overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a decade. This is true in philanthropy as well.

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.