I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

I want my name to mean me.

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

He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility.

I like having my back pressed against a wall and being made to work harder so I don't embarrass myself.

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried him in the earth at the bottom of the garden. And all his molecules were broken down into other molecules and they went into the earth and were eaten by worms and went into the plants and if we go and dig in the same place in 10 years there will be nothing exept his skeleton left. And in 1,000 years even his skeleton will be gone. But that is all right because he is a part of the flowers and the apple tree and the hawthorn bush now.