I think I love my dreaming process because one of the things that my dreaming process does is sort out stories for me.

I guess it's just another one of life's little mysteries." "I'm tired of mysteries." "Yeah? I think they add a kind of zest to the world. Like salt in a stew.

It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard.

Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt.

When I started out, there were a lot of things I knew I couldn't do, and a lot of things I only found out I couldn't do by going and doing it. And no-one was watching, and nobody cared.

The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.

Television and cinema were all very well, but these stories happened to other people. The stories I found in books happened inside my head. I was, in some way, there. It's the magic of fiction: you take the words and you build them into worlds.