Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.

If you are working in an office, where do you find the time to write a novel? But you can finish a short story in five pages. Furthermore, a short story is a perfect place to learn the craft

a dream can be the highest point of a life

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.

The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.