All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

I am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real, in the sense of being real symbols.

How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?

This web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

As to my writing short pieces, there are two reasons I can give you. The first is my invincible laziness. The second is that I've always been fond of short stories, and it always took me some trouble to get through a novel.

You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.