You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.
I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
Cruelty is not a literary value.
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.