There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name.

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

Great control and great discipline are necessary when you reach your own editing stage of the book, but in the early stages you have to be prepared to let anything happen and to get it wrong or go off track. The development of a character is not smooth or simple - it is as tricky as meeting someone new whom you would like to know better.

Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.

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.

There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.