Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

There are no amateurs in the world of children.

That's how you write novels actually. You suddenly hit upon something and you realize this is the path you were meant to take. You'd be a fool if you didn't follow it. Perhaps it's like solving a difficult question in pure mathematics. There must be a moment when the solution is so simple and evident that you wonder why you hadn't come upon it before. When you do come upon it, you know it in the deepest part of your being. It carries its own logic.

Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)

I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.

World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.

It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.