It was at the outskirts of the world that the Old Things accumulated, like driftwood round the edges of the sea. ("The Troll")

I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.

We are all each other's teachers.

Why should we plant, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?

Peace begins with a smile.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.

There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race.

I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.

the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.

Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.