It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.

Going back after a long time will make you made, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.

There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.

Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create. Just on the other side of creativity is the nuthouse - and I often notice people looking at me strangely when I am talking out loud, but there is no other way.