The past is a ghost that haunts us. Ghosts must banished. Lingering on the past is weakness, Lord Vader.

I like to keep the world, to some degree, an implied setting.

I enjoyed The Mirage by M. Ruff. I'm reading Edgar Rice Burrough's Princess Of Mars right and loving it.

I loved The Weird (one of the stories in it inspired Blackalley in Discourse).

Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.

I try to pester Christian Dunn from time to time. As soon as my schedule allows, I plan to make a real pest of myself and get some hot, slippery Chaos action.

The Disney deal created some wrinkles. I'm under contract. But I'm on standby.

I'm unstuck in time. Also, I juggle like mad and have made myself efficient.

Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.

My goal is to write stories that are connected, but not sequels in any meaningful sense. Like Howard's Conan tales or Leiber's Fahrrd & the Great Mauser stories.

I always work from outline and almost always write out of sequence. It just works for me.

If you love someone and they vanish, you are left nodding like a zombie and throwing teacups at a wall.

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.

The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.

Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth.

Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern.

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

A secret freedom opens through a crevice you can barely see.

Many players want to make as much money as they can and change teams for ten grand. How is that going to make much difference to their lives?

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.