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.

Something about the howling of a wolf took a man right out of his here and now and left him in a dark forest of the mind, running naked before the pack.

Trust is earned. Like gold.

You can't just pick people for their hair color or the shape of their face. You have to go with the best actors.

There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.

You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart.

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