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

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

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

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

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.