I'd say that after my father passed my writing changed it went deeper. Most would say 'matured' but I don't think I'd use that word in relation to my progress. I think 'change' is a little more accurate.

The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.

Sometimes when we are generous in small barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

You know Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories no sudden plot twists it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says the book won't change. It is written.

And I do believe that the way to change a society to uplift people - not just their spirit but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction you can change what's crushing you.

Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.

But I think it's more that when you're young you're invincible you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing to be honest.

Whoever is content with the world and who profits from its lack of justice does not want to change it.

I was born left-handed but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road ' which was very long I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser so later on I had to change it.

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid or to change to a belief in anything else.

I don't change. The things around me change.

There are many challenges there are many obstacles let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.

So I think it's - what was important to me is that I found that I can't change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don't think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there.