I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

Don't put things off till it's too late. You are the DJ of your fate.

Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.

And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink

I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about things that matter to them.

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.

I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.

To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.

Time management is essential for a work-life balance.

No magnetic wombats, no flying hyenas, no catfish masquerading as samurai, and, MOST CERTAINLY, no Duku jam!

Maybe it's true what the Seelie Queen had said, after all: Love made you a liar.

This weather may be breaking our hearts but it will not be breaking our will.

…she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy

The world's favorite verb is 'get'. The verb of the Christian is 'give'

All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.

If I can change, anybody can change.

When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it