They are so confident that they will run on forever. But they won't run on. They don't know that this is all one huge big blazing meteor that makes a pretty fire in space, but that some day it'll have to hit.

Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending.

He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution.

Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.

You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.