I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's surprise at the world.

Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in love," characteristically, combs the appearances of the word, and of the particular lover's history, out of a random tangle and into a coherent plot.

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently.

Outside our small safe place flies mystery.

For my true thoughts have spent more time in your company than in anyone else's, these last two or three months, and where my thoughts are, there am I, in truth".