New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo.

Bullying is not okay. Period.

Like any child raised on tales of magical worlds beyond paintings and mirrors and wardrobes, I had yearned to enter Middle Earth, to reach through.

Every libromancer had a first book. Etched more sharply into my memory than my first kiss, this book had been my magical awakening.

If we ruled the world, I guarantee you they never would have cancelled Firefly

Freedom of religion does not give you the right to physically or verbally assault people.

...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.

A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.

If I'm making myself laugh, I figure most of my readers will be amused as well.

Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage my book. I hate that guy.

I read more books for research purposes, whether its a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.

A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again.

Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian...I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does. I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.

The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to eat, drink, even be merry.

It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

For me, being transparent about every aspect of my life is what makes my music relatable and how I'm able to be an individual amongst the mass amounts of other artists.

A beautiful problem is no joke!