Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.

Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.

There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature...Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Music is the invisible world made visible through sound.

Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.

One cannot always marry the person one loves.