We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.

When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you're an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.

I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest.And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.

I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk