“Night eyes had risen and stretched stiffly. Now he came to lie down beside me. He set his head on my knee. 'I don't understand. You are ill?' 'No. Just stupid.' 'Ah. Nothing new there. Well,...”

“Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.”

“Fantasy encompasses a wide, wide spectrum of writing. We have beast fables, we have gothics, we have tales of vampires and werewolves, and we have sword and sorcery; we have epics from Homer...”

“Stop longing. You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.”