All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.

Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.

See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.

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

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

You cannot blame everything on the enemy.