I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.

O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.

The light is the left hand of darkness.

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.

There is no kingdom like the forests.

The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel.

The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.