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

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

I don't finish a lot of the books I read. I get enormous pleasure from reading half f them, two-thirds of them, even incredibly good books. But I don't feel it's my duty to finish them. I read the last few pages and find out what happens at the end.

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

There is still in many schools complete misapprehension that children with reading difficulties are stupid. It is so easy to teach a child that they're dumb. There needs to be a recognition that you need different ways to teach children who have got reading problems.

Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are fascinating.

I might be able to find out what happened 6,000 years ago but I will never know what happens 6,000 years in the future! And that is not fair, blast it.