Any moment called NOW is always full of possibles.

I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.

I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.

My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.

I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.

A heart with love flies like a dove in the sky of beauty and kindness.

Your future is not fixed

It would be hilariously tragic if I avoided the rabids, avoided the sun, only to be fried to a crisp on a damn electric fence because I was too impatient.

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll evolve to become so skilled at fishing he destroys the ocean and kills every last fish.

The only two people who can give you real feedback about your product are people who just purchased it and people who have just canceled.

A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.

I can guarantee you nothing I do is a conscious attempt to inject something in.

Depression makes me hate the world, but it gives me a million things to think.