I care about doing the work as best as I can do, and that it should go on reaching people. It's not about fame and it's not about me. It's about creating something that might allow someone else to create something.

Reading is where the wild things are.

Of course that is not the whole story, but that is the way with stories; we make them what we will. It's a way of explaining the universe while leaving the universe unexplained, it's a way of keeping it all alive, not boxing it into time.

Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing the universe to go on being unexplained; and we seem to need this even now, in our twentieth-century grandeur.

I have no idea what happens next.

This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.

I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.