I think we are worlds compressed into human form.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.

Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.

I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.

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.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.