The stories, the world, and me, we play this game of leap frog. The world changes me, the act of writing stories changes the stories that I write, and the stories I write seem capable of effecting at least very small changes upon the world.

And:

When I was in college, I was fortunate enough to attend a lecture on chimpanzees by Dr. Jane Goodall. She described a group of chimps that she’d watched reacting to an enormous waterfall. Clearly it disturbed them greatly. They seemed terrified. They would cower and peer out at it from between their fingers. But again and again, they would return to see that damned waterfall. And “I began to suspect,” said Dr. Goodall, “that I was watching the origins of religion.”

And:

It’s not an easy thing, being a Luddite and a geek.