Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going, this list would spiral. It's as wide as literature; in fact, it is probably wider.

As far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state.

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.

The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.

I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.

We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do.