If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling.

When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole.

Each form has its pluses and its minuses.

Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with only one of them. Put yourself into a different room, that’s what the mind is for.

Where do the words go when we have said them?