I find people confusing.

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

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

I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

I think good books have to make a few people angry.

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