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

Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's not like that. It happens overnight.

If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

You have to make an effort to always look at the good side, always think about the good things. Then you've got nothing to be afraid of. If something bad comes up, you do more thinking at that point.