Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.

There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.

Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you want. Actors embody and re-create the words of drama. In fiction, a tremendous amount of story and character may be given through the dialogue, but the story-world and its people have to be created by the storyteller. If there's nothing in it but disembodied voices, too much is missing.

There is no kingdom like the forests.

We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.