There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

When you're not swinging well, you lose that [swagger],

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.

I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.