A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

I couldn't tell you why but now I know a story is in fact where you discover who you are, where a culture discovers what it is and I just think that this is a terribly important place to get into and that I would enjoy it.

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you are in trouble and then the novel stops.

When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.