I want my name to mean me.

... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.

I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.

Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.

I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.