True Allegiance Is Only Given Willingly.

The Art Is More Important Than The Artist. The Work Is More Important Than The Person Who Does It. You Must Be Prepared To Sacrifice All The You Could Possibly Have, Be, Or Do; You Must Be Willing To Go All The Way For Your Art. If It Is A Question Between Choosing Between Your Life And A Work Of Art -- Any Work Of Art -- Your Decision Is Made For You.

Using The Device Of An Imaginary World Allows Me In Some Strange Way To Go To The Central Issues - It's One Of Many Ways To Express Feelings About Real People, About Real Human Relationships.

Paradoxically, In Fantasy For Young People I Was Able To Express My Own Deepest Feelings And Attitudes More Than I Had Ever Done In Writing For Adults.

If I Do Find Pride, I'll Not Find It In What I Was Or What I Am, But What I May Become. Not In My Birth, But In Myself.

At The End Of Knowledge, Wisdom Begins, And At The End Of Wisdom, There Is Not Grief...but Hope