The role of literature is to confront the darkness within us and to find a way to overcome it.

The more you can create a world that feels real, the more the audience will be drawn into it.

I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

Small-scale fishers hold ancestral wisdom that industrial fishing has forgotten.