I had these cheap alien toys and I made up stories for them. They were space pirates. They didn’t have names so I made up names. These were the first stories I wrote. Even as a little kid I was thinking about torture.

He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips.

The man who never reads lives only one.

I have been despised by better men than you.