Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.

With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.

I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.

Where there is light, there must be shadow, where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow.... We do not know if the so-called Little People are good or evil. This is, in a sense, something that surpasses our understanding and our definitions. We have lived with them since long, long ago-- from a time before good and evil even existed, when people's minds were still benighted.

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.

It's my motto for life. 'Walk slowly; drink lots of water.