The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.

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.

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

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