We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.

I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps.

Style is anti-fashion; it's not about following trends.

I hope people of the future will remember my books for being burned, and I challenge an elite few to imagine the embers of the last copy.

What makes you wise is not what you learn, but what you practice. What makes you wealthy is not what you earn, but what you invest. So, invest in what to practice, and practice what to invest.

It is not summer, England doesn't have summer, it has continuous autumn with a fortnight's variation here and there.

I have a son, but I've never had a daughter. I have a sister, and my sister had a fairly tempestuous relationship with my dad when she was young, and that was gripping and sometimes upsetting.

I'm not angry. Everybody thinks I'm so angry because I have a point of view. They're expecting me to just be all Smucker's Jam.

When I have time, I'll be a good girl and do my chores.

Fear is never a good enough reason to do nothing

I think people who make objects like the distance; they're not there when the other person is taking it in.

When I want to play music, you've got to get me on tape or else it goes.

The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.