You have to be lonely to be a writer

She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.

Wherever there were horses or ponies the mushrooms always sprang up.

I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.

... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.

what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.