It's a terrible poison, writing.

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're handed sour grapestake off your shoes and start dancing

Your expectations determineyour experience.Expect the best from lifeand you will usually get it.

Dragons are fire made flesh.

I promised that from now on I would write only for the Lord.

Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.

You're always going to face criticism, you're always going to face challenges, but those things are there to make you stronger and more committed.

True love is willing to warn, reprove, confront or admonish when necessary.

Illness sets the stage for the opening of our hearts.

You never heard ofplugging her in ? My God, Myrnin, you made a vampire computer?

Superman, Superman, crunchy little Superman. Found you in a Cornflakes box.