“Giving English to an American is like giving sex to a child.”

You don’t need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn.

He knows it’s important but he doesn’t know what to do with it.

You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you’d say, “Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter,” but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they wouldn’t apply to anybody that has a child.

I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I’m glad of.

My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read Boneland.

I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual.

I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books.

I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.

When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I’m basically the child of Richard Dawkins.

To my inner child, I promise I am trying my best to heal from everything that hurt you. I promise I am trying to become the person you need me to be so we can both be whole.