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.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

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

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 believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

Everything we do has consequences.

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.