and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble.

It was a secret time and place, you next to me, untraceable and out of this world

If you like books with happy endings then put this book down immediately.

I'm always interested to see what films are made of books. I kind of don't participate as a filmgoer in any kind of debate about what's better, the book or the movie. So I think it's interesting when people want to do it.

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.

It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.