Peas baffled me. I could not understand why grown-ups would take things that tasted so good raw, and then put them in tins, and make them revolting.

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.

I feel like I am involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell me the rules, and who smiles all the time.

If you were close enough to her ruby-red lips you would hear her say, 'I will rise now and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek the one I love.' She is whispering that, and she whispers, 'By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. My beloved is mine and I am his.

Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have told you why.