Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself.

Though I personally will defend the value of bedtime stories to my last gasp, I have learned to value imagination in a much broader sense. Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it ( Read more... )

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."