We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.

Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.

Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.

A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

We come to a lamp beside the pathway, and suddenly we stop walking, and we start to dance, and we glitter in the shafts of light, like stars, like flies, like flakes of dust.

This is our world. Aye, there's more than enough of darkness in it. But over everything there's all this joy, Kit. There's all this lovely, lovely light.

Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling.

If you can’t love yourself, how can you love others? If you can’t forgive yourself, how can you forgive others?

The world is build on miss understanding and miss concept.

A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor.

I mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest.

I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!

Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices.

Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security.

The difference between you and me is that you think to live and I live to think.

I was never the girl who walked down the centre of the hallway snapping people out of her way.