If you want to meet someone who can fix any situation you don't like, who can bring you happiness in spite of what other people say or believe, look in a mirror, then say this magic word: 'Hello.'

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.

When I'm writing it's as if I'm the observer. It's as if that computer screen there -it used to be the typewriter - just kind of dissolves and there's this whirling tunnel of mist and there's a kind of proscenium arch, and then there are my characters, and they say what they say, and I laugh sometimes in surprise at what they say.

Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.

Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.