When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead, or even if you were a hobbit, you're going to be white. That was an extremely old-fashioned, obviously really narrow-minded way to look at things.

If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.

What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few.

My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.

Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?

I genuinely am sort of an emotionally stunted man-child, so if I just write to the top of my intelligence, it sounds like a teenager. I like being around teenagers. It's good for drama; they feel everything much more intensely than adults do, their lives are much more interesting than ours. They're mutants. They have these weird bodies that are rebelling against them and changing every day. Teenagers always equal good drama.