As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.

I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.

I was reading some complex books in my own youth-and no, I didnt always understand every word, let alone every concept-but I got the main thrust, which was like a lifeline in a fluctuating world.

What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.