Cats can do whatever they want, whenever they want, without regard to what anyone says or does. Rather like Princesses.

Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.

The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.

We should not be less than what we are.

I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.