Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

The more I wonder, the more I love.

How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.