How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

Everything has been something before.

Any extreme political creed brought only darkness in the long run; it lit up nothing. The best politics were those of caution, tolerance and moderation, Angus maintained, but such politics were, alas, also very dull, and certainly moved nobody to poetry.

I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.

I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.

I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes; it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.