The pain is when the dreams change, as they do, as they must.

The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time? Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world?

You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return.

It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is.

..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.

Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.

That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.