Harm can come about without will or action. But will and action can avert harm.

…my Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have.

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity.

She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and forests containing wolves, foxes and the dark.

I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

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.

Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please, with none to forbid or criticise.