To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.

If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.

Once one habit peels away the others follow it. You have to hold on, or the next thing you'll find yourself parading down the street in your nightdress. Habit is everything.

I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.

In a world without air all you breathe is adventure!

I was always influenced by language.