We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.

I think it's perfectly possible to explain how the universe came about without bringing God into it, but I don't know everything, and there may well be a God somewhere, hiding away. Actually, if he is keeping out of sight, it's because he's ashamed of his followers and all the cruelty and ignorance they're responsible for promoting in his name. If I were him, I'd want nothing to do with them.

I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times.

A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.

You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

...because where we are is always the most important place.