First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Time is how you spend your love.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

Just having a certain kind of attitude can be magic.

We will not wake up ten years from now and find we have passively taken on the character of God.

Men will always be boys.

We live and breathe words...but writing them down makes you escape into new worlds. Only those who write would understand.

As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they're the best audience around. Just putting a smile on a kid's face is the best thing.

I'm not wild about hand-held shots.

I love doing the conventions and being an ambassador for 'Star Wars'.

The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.

The first stop on this crazy train is Kindergarten Junction, and nobody gets off until it pulls into Harvard Station.

As you talk, so is your heart.