I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.

The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.

Literature is the voice of the human heart.

People die when curiosity goes.

I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.

I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.

Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'

I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.

Don’t wait for the tornado, struggles make you reach the castle.

Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.

one of those pertinacious tempers that would warm every day to a white heat and never again cool to forgiveness.

That was, in fact, my life. A whole series of reasonable lies.

It's better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster.

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

Evil man make me kill you.

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.

Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees.