You turned your guilt into resentment, because that seems easier to face. You won't move on until you turn it back into guilt, and then into forgiveness for yourself.

Live every day as if you've come back in time from a dystopian future to try and prevent everything from breaking.

Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface.

If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.

When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos.

As Dorothy J. Heydt famously said, the eight deadliest words for any work of fiction are 'I don't care what happens to these people.

Do you think the occasional witch burning helps to weld society together?

A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet.

Why would anybody be a Satanist, anyway? I don’t get it. You can’t believe in Satan without believing in God, and then you’re just picking the wrong side in a big mythic battle thing.

Loneliness was a full-body sensation, an anti-exhilaration, from his core outward.

Love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises.

Love truly is the strongest emotion. Find it, hold it and use it

She had so deep a kinship with the trees, so intuitive a sympathy with leaf and flower, that it seemed as if the blood in her veins was not slow-moving human blood, but volatile sap.

Anger is a valid emotion. It's only bad when it takes control and makes you do things you don't want to do.

Storms come to teach trees and plants how to dance in the wind.

I don't think I've ever been mistaken for anyone.

You don't come into the more without responding to what you already know.

I like loud snare, and I like really treble-y guitars, and that's just never going to change.

Well, Grover Washington was my main influence and when I went to college, I started listening to more of the jazz masters like Sonny Rollins, Cannonball Adderley, and John Coltrane.

Your potentialities are a great deal better than anyone ever permitted you to believe.

Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.