I think people who share my dreams can enjoy reading my novels. And that's a wonderful thing. I said that myths are like a reservoir of stories, and if I can act as a similar kind of "reservoir," albeit a modest one, that would make me very happy.

But I found that the longer you teach, the more you feel like a total stranger to yourself

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

They were each like a mirror for the other, reflecting the changes in themselves.

I'm going to take you out of here ... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent tails live, and there are little backyards, and alarm clocks ring in the morning.

Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me.

A theory is a battlefield in your head.