Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!

I don't read like other people do - back and forth, across the page. I tend to scan a page at a time.

Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!

I think I have probably adjusted the way I see the world, I interpret the world and I communicate the world into book format simply because of this familiarity. Possibly in another society and another context I might have been a storyteller or who knows what.

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

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.

I do read very, very quickly. I do process data very quickly. And so I write very quickly. And it is embarrassing because there is a conception that the things that you do quickly are not done well. I think that's probably one of the reasons I don't like the idea of prolific.