Still More Astonishing Is That World Of Rigorous Fantasy Which We Call Mathematics.
Creating Fantasy Is A Very Personal Thing, But You Can't Take The Process Too Personally.
I Have This Fantasy. I'm Walking Past A Bookshop And I Click My Fingers And All My Books Go Blank. So I Can Start Again And Get It Right.
We Are Not Buried In History, But Surrounded By It. You Can't Avoid Our Behavior Being Shaped By It, To A Considerable Degree. We Have This Fantasy That We Are Free Of History. This Allows Us Not To See The Circumstances, The Historical Circumstances Of Other People.
All You Ever Were Was A Little Bit Of The Universe, Thinking To Itself. Very Specific; This Bit, Here, Right Now. All The Rest Was Fantasy.
Wizards Was My Homage To Tolkien In The American Idiom. I Had Read Tolkien, Understood Tolkien, And Wanted To Do A Sort Of Fantasy For American Kids, And That Was Wizards.