I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.

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.

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

Do not just accept anything without questioning.

...as you know, I don't believe in fear, just an invention by men so they get all the money and good jobs...

I can trust the One who has my best interest in mind.

I don't go by what the law say. The law's liable to say anything. I go by if it's right or not. It don't matter what the law say. I take and look at it for myself.

I will never reject an autograph, hug or photo. I was also a fan of football.

In Hollywood, you feel a responsibility to look less disheveled than you are. But I'm a mom, and I'm not good at putting time into prepping.

We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones.

In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.

I cannot be content with less than heaven.