Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

You love someone, you've got to let something go.

I think I've learnt that there is no character so strange that you haven't shared their experience in some small way.

..because when we look up into the sky at night there will be no darkness, just the blazing light of billions and billions of stars, all falling.

Many childrens writers dont have children of their own

I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.

Find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.