I think your mythology would call them fallen angels. War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is un-Naming - making people not know who they are. If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need Namers, because there are places throughout the universe like your planet Earth. When everyone is really and truly Named, then the Echthroi will be vanquished.

With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

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.

There is nothing we need be afraid to say before the Lord.

Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.