It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

I am a creature of chemicals.

Madness, and then illumination.

He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.