Anything was better than to be loved for one's things.

'I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China, and continue my profession.' 'As sanitary engineer?' 'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries of the world.'

As you go along, you literally collect places. I'm fed up with going to places; I shan't go to anymore.

I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.

Because they knew each other's thoughts, they even quarrelled without speaking.

The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires?

I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.