All empires fall eventually. It is the way of things.

Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.

I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that's when I found my rhythm in writing.

And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise.

...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.

I don't always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.

It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.