A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.
There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.
For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.
I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.
Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.
There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another.
A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea.
"Only write what you know" is very good advice. I do my best to stick to it. I wrote about gods and dreams and America because I knew about them. And I wrote about what it's like to wander into Faerie because I knew about that. I wrote about living underneath London because I knew about that too. And I put people into the stories because I knew them: the ones with pumpkins for heads, and the serial killers with eyes for teeth, and the little chocolate people filled with raspberry cream and the rest of them.
Pay attention to the girl, instead of myself. A bunch of people [told me that]. It's terrible. I'm very into myself, so people are always like, "Pay attention to the other person. Don't ever separate yourself. " It's a good lesson. I'm learning. I'm doing good.
I know life is hard but we can always find hope in music and wash away our tears
It's not nice going into the supermarket and the woman at the till is thinking: 'Dodgy keeper'.