A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all are fragile things made of just twenty-six letters arranged and re-arranged to form tales and imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

I like airplanes. I like anywhere that isn't a proper place. I like in betweens.

I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool.