I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.

Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.

I know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.

If silences could be pregnant, then this one went to full term.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

I don't want people to get the impression that I just got money and now I'm cocky, because I'm not. I'm just a little overly confident.

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

I still think I am the greatest.

I'm pretty much out of popular culture altogether.

People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.

If you're lucky enough to be different, never change.

We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender.