Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.
My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.
This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house thatโs on fire.
My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level, I always see them as being about power, in the same way that Harry Potter books are pitched to a population of young people who really have no power.
All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.
My inventory of people who can save me is down to just me.