I do not threaten, I merely advise caution.

It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.

He told me not to seek revenge, but to seek the Buddha,' said the fox spirit, sadly. 'Wise counsel,' said the fox of dreams. 'Vegeance can be a road that has no ending. You would be wise to avoid it. And...?' 'I shall seek the Buddha,' said the fox, with a toss of her head. 'But first I shall seek revenge.

They could not truly look dead, because they did not ever look alive.

The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes.

Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths.

I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.