...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

There's this huge number of desperate people.

Dealing with the impossible, fantasy can show us what may be really possible. If there is grief, there is the possibility of consolation; if hurt, the possibility of healing; and above all, the curative power of hope. If fantasy speaks to us as we are, it also speaks to us as we might be

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

I loved all the world's mythologies.

All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.