I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.

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.

If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.

That “the Spirit Himself intercedes” indicates that it is actually God pleading, praying, and mourning through us.

Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket then counting your blessings before they hatch.

Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.

O, it's enough to be on your way. It's enough just to cover ground. It's enough to be moving on. Home: better build it behind your eyes. Carry it in your heart, Safe among your own.

Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Perspective is a moment in time that cannot be fully appreciated until that moment has passed.

Treating myself is more about just going out and having a great hike, or going on a long motorbike ride.

i happen to enjoy categorization.