She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

Love's just one of the ways through, and it can go wrong, and miss. Pain never misses. But therefore we don't have much choice about enduring it! We will, whether we want to or not.

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

As a writer, you are free.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.

Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it is. To imply that Art is something heavy and solemn and dull, and Entertainment is modest but jolly and popular, is neo-Victorian idiocy at its worst.