But I didn't think about this beforehand. I just went ahead and did it, and that's the way it turned out. So I guess there are lots of paradoxes which I'll leave for other people to unscramble.

It's hard to understand how you arrive at a design. It's far too complicated to get any overall picture of.

I have a sort of waking nightmare: to get this thing just about completed, and the last day to discover one little part that doesn't quite fit with the adjacent part.

I have created the Raven in my own image over the years and insist that mine is the version of this personality that is correct - well, at least it is correct as far as I am concerned.

I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.

Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all.

You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.

You need to live a life of service to make your life an effective one

My outstretched arms found hers, and I was home.

So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.

The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.

Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn't feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, and their skills and their crafts... and now we are, so we're out there, just like the guys.

Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.

I hope I just show women that its OK to inhabit your own body. Im not a rah-rah feminist. But its important to me that people see you can be an athlete and be strong-and also be a girl.

When I see that man on the telly - 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' No! I'm definitely not! I find most of it quite offensive!

I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.