Do all kids have to worry about their parents’ mental health? The way society is set up, parents are supposed to be the grown-up ones and look after the kids, but a lot of times it’s the other way around.

Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.

I believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.

I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do.

language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.