I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

There is no fool like an educated fool.

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

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

There is never only one, of anyone

Sometimes reactions can be quite surprising: readers like things that you, the author, feel you've barely gotten away with; or they dislike one of the parts you secretly think is one of your little gems.