If you run away from trouble, it always follows.' Rather my impression, too. Though that never stopped me trying.

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.

Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles

You definitely shouldn't watch the special features before you watch the actual series.

I fell in love. It was a great thing to be in love. I was a complete idiot in love.

I recommend a balance between the therapies that are available, the medicines that are available but not to give up on the body as a result.

This is a very tough business, politics. It's easy to get resentful or full of bitterness ... (but) I think hatred hurts the hater more than the hated. So I'm looking back on my time positively.

The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy.

I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.

Let there be no distance between the words you say and the life you live.

A love song is just a caress set to music.

We have to keep the body in good health; we have to take care of what we eat and drink, and what we do.