I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?

The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.

She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood.

Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

No one is ever ordinary.

Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

Your perspective determines your experiences, attitude and the quality of your life.

I’m like a cat. I swear I havenine lives

I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei

Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires ... How avant-garde!

Donald Trump is toast.

. . . man is just what he thinks himself to be . . . He will attract to himself what the thinks most about. He can learn to govern his own destiny when he learns to control his thoughts.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Аrt movements are always linked to some kind of turmoil.

It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.