He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.

A weak King must be what other Kings have been; a strong King is himself, and from then on the meaning of the name of King is changed.

Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.

There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples; some of them call themselves married, some don't, but their friends treat them as married. Anybody who doesn't like it just doesn't hang out with them.

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.