I guess: People who are comfortable enough with reality to allow other sorts of realities and other mindsets to just be, and then to regard these with real interest and joy [and the joy appears in the prose quality itself].

If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then what he needs is someone who can grasp the potential of the piece and lead him to that higher ground.

The contours of the coming disaster expanded to include the deaths of all present.

That's the only way that I can figure out how to live, is to say, "Well, I don't know what this adds up to, but I can do the best I can."

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.

I do find the values in A Christmas Carol significant. It is important not to be mean and stingy and not to give up love for money.

I actually do believe in life after death.