You shouldn’t read so much, you’ll get a brain tumor.

I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.

Im omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though Ill read a novel in a day or two.

Those who rise first are morally superior. It’s a universal law.

All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.

We considered behaving, but it’s against our nature.

When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.

Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small?

You can’t really know what you are made of until you are tested.

Life is a journey through a foreign land.