When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. Enchantment alters with age, and with the age. We know a dozen Arthurs now, all of them true. The Shire changed irrevocably even in Bilbo's lifetime. Don Quixote went riding out to Argentina and met Jorge Luis Borges there. Plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

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.

As a writer, you are free.

To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.

The great authors share their souls with us- "literally.