“If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.”
“Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa. ”
“You can’t say A is made of B or vice versa. All mass is interaction.”
“No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things”
“The real thing about evil… you figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. The real disaster of this inquiry is that it is the nature of evil to be secret.”
“Normally, the more talent one has, the more one doubts it. And vice versa.”