I have nothing from my childhood. I think you carry those books with you. It's like in [Ray] Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." Books are outlawed in this future society so people become the book they love by memorizing it.

Just because something is unspoken doesn't mean that it disappears.

I can't really work on more than one thing at a time

I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.

Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by

The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.

What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk or a gate could just appear in a wall. I think fairy tales are so psychological.