I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.

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.

It’s tough, but if you want to survive, sometimes you have to do the seemingly impossible.

Change was coming.Change was coming, and it was good.

In our century of progress and industrialization we still cannot avoid and prevent wars. I'd propose to have a separate planet where we'd insert fighting coutries to solve their business.

Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.

You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.

Congress is a Mafia running a protection racket.. .

Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.

Fire doesn't fall on empty alters. There has to be a sacrifice on the alter for the fire to fall. If you want the fire of God, you must become the fuel of God.

See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.