For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.

Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.

For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange.

I like handling newborn animals. Fallen into life from an unmappable world, they are the ultimate immigrants, full of wonder and confusion.

As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in turn shapes our relationships.

Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.