I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

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.

Do I dare Disturb the universe?

You are the eyes of the universe and the sunlight of the dawn. Universe exists because of you.

Every individual is unique with unique talents.

Mountains, hills and valleys confirm the beauty of Your holiness.

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.

Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery.

I am glad to be here to create a new history in our industry. I'm very proud of this.

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

Our society, including the liberals, must understand that there must be order.

He who regards all things as one is a companion of Nature.