There's a lot of things you can put up with, as long as you're not related to them.

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.

God' is whatever is the next obvious step towards wholeness in yourself and your life

Keegan had never realized how absolute silence could be in the minutes before dawn. Maybe because the expectation of battle filled the air, not even birds sang.

Fate had a weird way of circling back over paths that were meant to cross.

There are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.

Modern invention has been a great leveler. A machine may operate far more quickly than a political or economic measure to abolish privilege and wipe out the distinctions of class or finance.

I know it when I see itJacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964), concurring op.

So you’ve made a friend. How sad for them.

In later years, during what might be called my gray-outs — when I was conscious but not myself — I craved foods that were almost always fattening.

I never, absolutely never, keep people waiting.

If you think you've stopped learning, you're going to get lapped.