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.

Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept.

Very much in my books people find not surrogate families because they are real families. We've got families that we're related to by blood but we've also got families that we acquire. And those too I think are pretty much part of my books.

If something is worth doing you may as well go heart and soul and boot leather.

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

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.

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.