Never stop paying attention to things. Never make your mind up finally. Do not hold beliefs.

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.

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.

I grew up in Florida, where if you weren't comfortable dancing, you weren't going to get any girls.

We call a thing big or little with reference to what it is wont to be, as we speak of a small elephant or a big rat.

Your website is the window of your business. Keep it fresh, keep it exciting.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

I will fight you endlessly if I think you're wrong but I will never judge you.

My job, is to show folks there's a lot of good music in this world, and if used right it may help to save the planet.

We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.