I hate being good. -Mary Poppins

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.

For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer, because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.

Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.

Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first bear them is not of surprise but of recognition.