No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.

Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.