Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech - but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun.

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

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.

You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.