You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself.

I was the kind of person who knew what he wanted to do; I wanted to write, I wanted not to be in school, and I felt that university would just be spending another four years of my life before I could write.

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.

Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.

You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue.

I think radio plays are my favourite medium, as they make the listener work and create and contribute in a way that TV and film can never do, and they have an immediacy that written prose often lacks.

In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.