I am not going to change who I am. I am human and I know how to love, and be kind, and be compassionate to those who are weaker than me. Just because I have power doesn't mean I have to use it!

While princes do rule the empire, they have to work within certain boundaries, and they're also always in a contest with each other to become the next emperor. And this contest includes actually killing each other, doing anything they can get away with to each other.

I have never known what to tell anybody. Except that it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.

I think there is a kind of laconic Australian leg-pulling sense of humor that is certainly in some of my stories, or is an element in some of my books, and that's probably a direct result of where I've grown up. But other than that I don't draw particularly on the Australian landscape or the Australian biology and so on. So I don't think there's anything you could point to and say is particularly Australian.

Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the entire puzzle?

The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.