Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance.

Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling.

The past is a closed door.

It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography — but if you write your biography, it's equally assumed you're lying your head off.

Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.

Literature is not only a mirror; it is a map, a geography of the mind.