Learning another language is like becoming another person.

I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.

If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage

Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?

Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.

We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at all what you're going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you're a kid and you're reading stories.