Subby Subby Subby," whispered Goss. "Keep those little bells on your slippers as quiet as you can. Sparklehorse and Starpink have managed to creep out of Apple Palace past all the monkeyfish, but if we're silent as tiny goblins we can surprise them and then all frolic off together in the Meadow of Happy Kites.

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

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

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

I don't like allegory.

So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.

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