You can't really know what you are made of until you are tested.

For every pleasure, there must be a sacrifice.

All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.

You shouldn't read so much, you'll get a brain tumor.

When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.

I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.