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.

Where would we be without inhibitions? Theyre quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.

They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.

I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.

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

History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself.