Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.

What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don't want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.

I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world.

Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need.

the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.

I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind. Much easier to let it blow all over you.