The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go.