I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.

A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.

I'm trained as a teacher that's the only thing I've got a certificate for.

We don’t have time, we just have a moment in time.

No man can have society upon his own terms.

There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car.

Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.

Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.

I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.

I'm gonna dress up as an iPhone so my husband pays attention to me.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Good advice is rarer than rubies.