Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?

Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.

I thought a circus environment would be an interesting venue to explore, where you didn't just have one tent with three rings and a show going on but where you could explore different things in different tents.

Trespassers Will Be Exsanguinated.

Widge can see the past." Poppet says suddenly. "That's why his stories are so good." "The past is easier," Widget says. "It's already there." "In the stars?" Bailey asks. "No." Widget says. "On people. The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it's still there, the events and t hings that pushed you to where you are now.

You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts.