We don't need fantasy to mess with our minds to the point of rendering us insane - real life horrors do that already.

Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.

The act of sharing with readers was at first too much of an intimate thing. But it evolved into an intense necessity to share.

Fantasy, at its best, is balm for the soul. But it is faulty logic to assume that balm is necessarily mind-numbing anesthesia.

You cannot be fair to others without first being fair to yourself. Know that a well-honed sense of justice is a measure of personal experience, and all experience is a measure of self. Know that the highest expression of justice is mercy. Thus, as the supreme judge in your own court, you must have compassion for yourself. Otherwise, cede your gavel.

Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.

When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream begin to dissipate and the memory fades. Not all dreams are significant or worth remembering. But the ones that are . . . happen again. So, wait for the dream to return. And never be afraid. Instead, consider it an opportunity to learn something profound and possibly wondrous about yourself.