A father doesn't say, 'Don't go that way. ' He says, 'ome follow me. '
People's lives are in the care of the railways when they get on a train. The railways should remember that.
I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.
I am not a victim. I am an angry survivor.
All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story. . . They are terrible people.
All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.
What else does one obtain by realization of God? Does one grow two horns? No, the mind becomes pure, and through a pure mind one attains knowledge and awakening.
Around 80 per cent of my money goes to charity.
I find that a shirt is most similar to a napkin when I don't have a napkin.
Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.