There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your pain.

If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the mind.

Going back after a long time will make you made, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.

Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.

The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.

When we say we can pull resources away from libraries, from culture, from those parts of the education system that are not about utility, what we are really saying is that the life of the mind is unnecessary.

Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.