I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.

Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.

We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.

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

How massively the mountains stand, while low to the ground the sand blows. The sand blows on and on. And then there are no mountains, none at all, the sand has kissed and whispered them away. And still, the sand blows on.

At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.