The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives and be made an object of scorn just to get the point across. Did they really think I'd rather be camping by a polluted river than sitting in my own flat with my things about me?

Slightest accidents open up new worlds.

In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.

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.

London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.

Only the impossible is worth the effort.

I fell into the books, and left myself there for safekeeping.