Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.

The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

When you grow up", I said, "do you ever stop feeling little and weak?" "No," she says. "There's always a little frail and tiny thing inside, no matter how grown-up you are.

I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people that went on stupid and shouted rubbish or tried to tell you all about themselves, you could never really tell about them either... I knew if somebody looked at me, they'd know nothing about me, either.

They say that shoulder blades are where your wings were, when you were an angel," she said. "They say they're where your wings will grow again one day.