Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

Fantasy is literature for teenagers.

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter.

When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to transcend your parents' limitations.

When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it's own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it.

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.