If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.

A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

Fiona has the same glacial beauty of an iceburg, but unlike the iceburg she has absolutely nothing below the surface.

When you're writing a book, it's rather like going on a very long walk, across valleys and mountains and things [...] The highest mountain on the walk is obviously the end of the book, because it's got to be the best view of all, when everything comes together and you can look back and see that everything you've done all ties up. But it's a very, very long, slow process.

I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans.

There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.