A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.
You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.
Art should communicate with as many people as possible.
What can we give a child when there is nothing left?
Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don't expect to go.