Worldbuilding to me is taking the consequences of an idea.

I have control of my own style.

I can write a story in working-class Stockholm Swedish, but I'm not going to assume I can perform the same feat with Cockney. I'll focus on adventures in story, themes and structure instead.

Time is built entirely on consensus: humans decide that they have linear time, so they do.

To the goats, all people are equal, except for those who have treats.

Your first thought is often the best one. You know, the one that felt too weird or silly or stupid. Trust your imagination - it knows what it's doing.

All my stories and worlds spring from the basic principle of being a slave to the premise, to follow the consequences wherever they may lead without taking any easy or comfortable ways out.

I'm not comfortable with categorizing my own work, but I don't mind if others talk about it in relation to genre as long as they don't try to hold it up to some genre standard.

Some of my other stories are talked about as fantasy, some as horror, and some aren't talked about as genre at all. And the same story will be labeled differently depending on country.

I don't go out of my way to write Weird Fiction, or in any other genre. Some of my stuff easily slips into the Weird slot.

Happily, fantastic fiction is slowly gaining in status.

Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other.

you shoulda known the entirety of the trap, a**hole, love means eventual painvictory means eventual defeatgrace means eventual slovenliness, there's no wayout...you see, youunderstand?

I love your loneliness. It is brave. It makes the universe want to protect you.

It's a poor frog that doesn't praise his own pond! - Donnie McClurkin

Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished for another.

There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

And so, while perhaps not all God's chilluns got wings, enough have for each of us to hope that we may be among those that have.

Pain is nature's way of telling you to slow down. Death is nature's way of telling you to stop.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.