The sun will soon be setting, and corpses make poor company by night. These were dark and dangerous men, alive. I doubt that death will have improved them.

You always try to do your own thing. One of the things I wanted to do was to write a book that combines some of the best traits of contemporary fantasy with some of the traits of the historical novel.

Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names.

All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust.

Everything's better with some wine in the belly.

Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty.

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate.