Perhaps every time anyone is praised it means that someone else somewhere is going to be ignored

Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing's as eternal as the dishes.

New Zealand is the only country I know well enough to write about. It can sometimes lead to complications.

I don't want to die, really. I'm interested in what happens next, so I've got to keep on.

When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared.

By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.

Will you still love me when I'm a monster?

At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.

I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another.

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

We must seek the inner self, the power within.

The universe created us to be happy.

The best answer to bad speech is good speech

A lot of tight Senate races out there. Let's hit those chips with another dash of salsa, Ed Bradley.

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

Truth is what most contradicts itself.

I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.

People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.

Cause you mean the world to me, you are my everything; I swear the only thing that matters, matters to me.