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

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

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials of your mind and self. They become part of you while changing you. Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encountered before, people you wouldn’t care to sit next to in a train, people that don’t exist, places you’ve never visited, enigmatic fates, all come to life in the mind, painted into existence by the reader’s creative powers. In this way the creativity of the writer calls up the creativity of the reader. Reading is never passive.

We can redream this world and make the dream come real. Human beings are gods hidden from themselves.

To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.