Its always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.

Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

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.

There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.

Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.