You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.

I want a campfire box.

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.

Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.

You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less