A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.

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

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?