If people read 'Tomorrow' and feel that it is offering them some view of my own household, they would be very, very wrong.

Of course there are times when I hate London, but equally there are times when I can walk 'round a corner and I really feel that this is my place.

What does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face instead with - no future at all?

Literature is the voice of the human heart.

When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.

I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.

Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know.