A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.
Forgiveness is something that's always possibility.
Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.
Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.
Change is the only constant. Learn to surf your life instead of planting your feet.
Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.
The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: "A funny little man asked me to marry him. "
Only by fully experiencing fear, can you ever hope to control it.
I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.
The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.