You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.