Reading can be dangerous.

I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.

For me to see is to read. It has always been that way.

Of course I loved books more than people.

Boys do not leave their boyhood behind when they leave off their school uniform.

A good story is always more dazzling than a broken piece of truth.

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

She rose and she remembered, remembered and rose, until she had gone too far for fear to snatch her back.

Employers are like horses — they require management.

I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one.

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

We are co-creators with God, not puppets on a string waiting for something to happen.

In an easy and relaxed manner, in a healthy and positive way, in its own perfect time.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

Generally people are nice, but it's so weird that it has made me more cautious. Just like anyone else, I like looking around at my environment, but now as I walk down the street I tend to look down.

I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment.