Do the dead frighten you?

Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

I am not going to get into it myself, except to say (1) if I am writing "boy fiction," who are all those boys with breasts who keep turning up by the hundreds at my signings and readings? and (2) thank you, geek girls! I love you all.

She should be on a hill somewhere, under a fruit tree, with the sun and clouds above her and the rain to wash her clean.

Knowledge is a Weapon, Jon. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to Battle.

One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.

I did not do it. Yet now I wish I had.’ He turned to face the hall, that sea of pale faces. ‘I wish I had enough poison for you all. You make me sorry that I am not the monster you would have me be, yet there it is. I am innocent, but I will get no justice here.