Cities have distinct personalities. It's a matter of knowing it.

I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

Life itself must be founded upon the infinite possibility for choice and accident. And if we cannot prove that it is, we must believe that it is. We must believe that we can change, that we can control, that we can direct our own destinies.

I'm usually working on my own mythology, my own realm of created characters. Stories in mythology inspire me, though I may not be conscious of it.

The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.

My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death