I have a smoke grenade in my room," I said. "What?" Megan asked. "How?" "I grew up working at a munitions plant," I said. "We mostly made rifles and handguns, but we worked with other factories. I got to pick up the occasional goody from the QC reject pile." "A smoke grenade is a goody?" Cody asked. I frowned. What did he mean? Of course it was. Who wouldn't want a smoke grenade when offered one?

I have no idea what you just said, child,' Breeze said. 'So I'm simply going to pretend it was coherent, then move on.

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

When I write my books, actually I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.

People with passion are people who will destroy - for a man's passion is not true until he proves how much he's willing to sacrifice for it.

It is very important to be reading as well as writing. A doctor is not going to ignore new surgery practices.