I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie.

...and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.

I want my name to mean me.

Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.