It doesn't matter. I'm not asking forever of you...just let me love you now.

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.

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

What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.

We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.

What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.

Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.