a handful of crumpled stars

But maybe, underneath, she loves him too much. Maybe it's her excessive love that pushes him away.

Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.

Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework.

But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.

I meet a lot of readers who first encountered my work in school. And I can only assume there is another group who would run away very fast if they saw me coming, for exactly the same reason. Reading is individual, and not all tastes are alike.

History, as I recall, was never this winsome, and especially not this clean, but the real thing would never sell: most people prefer a past in which nothing smells.