I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

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.

You will always take first place in God’s Heart.

In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.

Short term "dash for cash" economic solutions hinder progress towards a better, more sustainable, world

We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.