We read books to find out who we are.

In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.

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.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

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.