Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.

Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.

As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.

Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and vital aspects of life.

To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.