his thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies

There was no normal. There never had been. "Normal" and "natural" were the biggest lies we'd ever created.

Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.

Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.

I would never see him again. But as I watched the tunnel race before my eyes, I was certain of one thing: I did trust him. Now I had only to trust in myself.

I looked at him and he looked at me. A moment. A choice. My choice. His choice.

Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.

I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, Im afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

I was born in 1991, and Harry Potter came out in 97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.

Not all of us know what we are. Some of us die without ever knowing. Some of us know, and never get caught. But we're out there. Trust me.

No need, no, need. Life is already too short to find it.

Every time someone tries to prevent a war from beginning...people get killed.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

Of all the ways people save time, I think racism is the worst.

[On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize.

I try not to keep my head in the clouds .

It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.

I think she's having hysterics. Maybe you should slap her.

Those yesterdreams were just a cruel and foolish game we used to play, yester-me, yester-you, yesterday.

Upon thy cheek I lay this zealous kiss, as seal to the indenture of my love.