Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.

We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it.

I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.

The Weaver is a really godlike power. It's not even a blind idiot god, a sort of Lovecraft thing, it's just a purely capricious god. It's an intelligence you can't understand, so you can't trust it." -Amazon.com interview