“You are beautiful in every single way. Words can't bring you down.”

“You can't bring me down,Do you here what I'm trying to say,You can't bring me down,I'll never turn the other way,”

“You are beautiful no matter what they say, remember words can´t bring you down”

“Every journey is personal. Every journey is spiritual. You can't compare them, can't replace, can't repeat. You can bring back the memories but they only bring tears to your eyes.”

“(CBI lecture, Dublin, 2008. Speaking on the challenges presented by The Moorehawke Trilogy to the YA reader)You can't choose any of these characters and say, 'Yes! I'm completely on your side. You are the good guy! You are the one I agree with.' Because at some stage along the way every single one of these characters will let you down. They may not want to. They may have no choice. But they will let you down.”

“I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.”