An odd phrase, "by heart," he would add, as though poems were stored in the bloodstream.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

Things are not what they seem.

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.

I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.

He felt changed, but there was no one to tell.

Memoria selectiva para recordar lo bueno, prudencia logica para no arruinar el presente y optimismo desafiante para encarar al futuro.

And then I noticed the dandelions.

You are a human being, not a human body.

I love presents, But since I've gotten older, I haven't really wanted anything. Christmas is about family.

Faith is easy I think people complicate it.

I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.

We ought not to desire the impossible.

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

You give to yourself by giving of yourself.

But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.