“At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.”

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it’s funny in any language.

A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone.

I was more inclined to think of it as “writer’s impatience”, and to follow Arthur Koestler’s dictum: “Soak; and wait.

When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside.

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls.

I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.

You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

Ive learned never to try and force words to come.

… I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of “writer’s block”.

It isn’t like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there’s a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent.

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

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.

It’s where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this.

I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I’m not in the position.

The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.

You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.

Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.

Because it is in the nature of things that they become extreme, we have passed down from manliness to cruelty. If I had been told when I was 20 that there was a tavern in the town where the brave and the cruel were gathered together,

Become dust – and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone – and they will throw thee on glass.

“No thought lives in your head rent-free.” Each thought you have will either be an investment or a cost.

Becoming rich isn’t as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich.