It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.

She who pays the undertaker calls the tune.

I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

art happens. It happens when you have the craft and the vocation and are waiting for something else, something extra, or maybe not waiting; in any case it happens. It's the extra rabbit coming out of the hat, the one you didn't put there.

I myself discovered many authors through school reading lists and through school anthologies. The positives are: young readers can find the world opening up to them through books they study. The negatives may include bad experiences kids have - if they don't like the book or the teacher, or the way the book is taught.

Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out.