...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.

Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.

My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered

Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly for ever.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

We live in a sea of general ideas, so that's not a novel, since there are so many general ideas. But the moment a particular idea is linked to a character, it's like an engine moves it. Then you have a novel underway.