Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.

I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

Why can’t our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other?

Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

No one needs a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses.

Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of 'fairy' is imported as a delicate spice.

Because two people in love don't make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to think the same, to know the same. It's about being separate and still loving each other, being distinct from each other. One is the violin string one is the bow.