Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.

The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions in them. Our dreams goad us and drive us and summon and sustain us and when we are old they comfort us. Magic is a kind of dream, and love is a dream, and hope is a dream. Without our dreams, there is no sweetness, no purpose to life.

Many truths which are not believed are called lies,' the Laughing Beast said. 'Mirrors do not themselves lie unless they have been enchanted. Ordinary mirrors merely reflect what is revealed to them. People lie and mirrors reflect people. If your mother feared mirrors in your land, she feared herself.

‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.