Paper isn’t important. It’s the words on them that are important.

This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.

Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.

It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.