"I think levity and humor can be used to tackle larger themes that are darker. Loneliness can be damaging, but when yo…"

"One thing that I came to learn about myself as a writer in working on this book is that my writing is often about who…"

"Grafting solitude onto a character who would live it on the page seemed to provide me with a sense of catharsis."

"Would you end war? Create great Peace."

"To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create."

"Hearts starve as well as bodies: Give us Bread, but give us Roses."

"Up in the heights of the evening skies I see my City of Cities float In sunset’s golden and crimson dyes: I look, and…"

"They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free."

"Hadn't he been blowing kisses to Earth millions of years before I was born?"

"Quick as a hummingbird is my love, Dipping into the hearts of flowers—She darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly, Dipping…"