I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate in being able to write quickly - 1000 words an hour.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

"despair all ye mortals," he said in a voice of doom. "the mama approacheth"

These spider webs are my home now

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Today just might be the best day to start seriously thinking about quitting smoking.

I cannot allow a third party to decide on my country's future.

I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.

The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.

Sugar Beth detected the movement and shot him a look that challenged not only his manhood but also his very right to exist on the planet.

There's so much beauty in Africa, but it's not endless.