Now I can see how that can happen. You can fall in love with anybody--a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules.
The characters [of The Tempest] have always been favorites of mine. It is one of his meditations on art - what it does.
Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.
Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.
There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.
It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots.