Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.
“When doing your aerobic exercise, go at a comfortable pace until you've developed more stamina.”
“I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.”