I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled.

When someone is missing the really hard thing is that you never really do give up hope, even though the inquest says that she is dead, even though right from the beginning we already knew that we wouldn't see her again.

For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.

The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.

Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free.

One of my extraordinary regrets about my death is not so much that it's going to happen but simply that I'll never know what happens next.

A lot of dyslexic kids are actually more intelligent than average and are very good, because they've got very good memories, at disguising the fact that they can't read or have got problems in reading and literacy.