You are never too young to be fierce and brave in your faith!
There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other.
I've felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger. I could hide from view, like a bat on the underside of a branch.
Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.
I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
It may be that to eat and be eaten are the same thing in the end. My wisdom tells me that this is probably so. We are all made of the same stuff, remember, we of the Jungle, you of the City. The same substance composes us-the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star-we are all one, all moving to the same end. Remember that when you no longer remember me, my child.
I think the idea of Mary Poppins has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
Tradesmen regard an author with a mixed feeling of terror, compassion and curiosity.
What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.
You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.
Under budgetary pressure (arbitrary or not) it is truly remarkable how many options one discovers one can do without.