The Idea That Memory Is Linear Is

All I Know For Certain Is That Reading Is Of The Most Intense Importance To Me; If I Were Not Able To Read, To Revisit Old Favorites And Experiment With Names New To Me, I Would Be Starved - Probably Too Starved To Go On Writing Myself.

I Didn't Think I Had Anything Particular To Say, But I Thought I Might Have Something To Say To Children.

Language Tethers Us To The World; Without It We Spin Like Atoms.

Mythology Is Much Better Stuff Than History. It Has Form; Logic; A Message.

I Have Long Been Interested In Landscape History, And When Younger And More Robust I Used To Do Much Tramping Of The English Landscape In Search Of Ancient Field Systems, Drove Roads, Indications Of Prehistoric Settlement. Towns And Cities, Too, Which Always Retain The Ghost Of Their Earlier Incarnations Beneath Today's Concrete And Glass.