Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.

The people who decided in their wisdom that we're all going to go over to ebooks, they are not readers. These are technical people. These are people who think that somehow this is progress. It isn't. It's regressive.

I never cared about money.

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.

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.

To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.