Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going without me.

Even though I'm not running anymore, we still have to try to find a cure for cancer. Other people should go ahead and try to do their own thing now.

I bet some of you feel sorry for me. Well don't. Having an artificial leg has its advantages. I've broken my right knee many times and it doesn't hurt a bit.

Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going without me.

It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I'm finished I'm not going to be on the front page, but I'm going to be just as happy without the publicity.

Our privacy is starting to be invaded and we can't get anything done. I'm happy with the fundraising but upset we don't have time to talk and meet with people.

Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going.

Judge me if you want, but at the end of my life I choose to have memories not regrets.

I could have been a rich kid who stayed in college and got by on the path of least resistance, but I got much more out of being in the world and pulling my own weight.

My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.

Typically, I would run away from conflict and write about it - that was easier than staying and dealing face-to-face with humans; that's terrifying for me.

I don't even know what an 'It' girl is. As far as I'm concerned, an 'It' girl is somebody who doesn't do anything except go to parties and get her photograph taken.

I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.

Art is anything you can get away with.

Girls that I use to try to talk to, now they want to talk to me.

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

This is a good plan for life in general. If you have two choices choose the harder.

A fighter with heart will almost always win out against a fighter with skill, but no will.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

I get a lot of flack from critics that my comedies are all over the place, my dramas are all over the place, they're schizophrenic - as if I don't know that!

Ideally, that's what you've got in an acting career is an equal number of dramas and comedies and an equal number of small films and big films.

Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.

To be here today is just beyond my wildest dreams.

What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

American politics is always an open competition.

In last year's local elections in Manchester a third of those who voted did so by post. It's not just that people are choosing to get postal votes, but having one makes it much more likely that they'll vote.

I want to have the career that is my choice - what interests me, what doesn't. I feel more and more strongly about that.

Not that I believe you can have it all: I believe you can have it all, just not at the same time.