Do all kids have to worry about their parents’ mental health? The way society is set up, parents are supposed to be the grown-up ones and look after the kids, but a lot of times it’s the other way around.

You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.

Every seed has a story.

It takes a long time to write a book. I'm not going to spend that much time trying to deliver a message. The reason I do it is because I want to understand something myself. It's not a delivery device, it's an inquiry device. Didactic fiction to my mind never works. It backfires.

Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.

language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you.

Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.