'Dreamsongs' allows me to show the scope of my writing - with personal commentary that puts the works in context and includes some autobiographical details intended to reveal how each piece came to be, what it represents, and how it has formed, or been informed by, my philosophy of writing.

Do dead man dream? The dead themselves are silent on the matter

The snow drifted down and down, all in ghostly silence, and lay thick and unbroken on the ground. It was a place of whites and blacks and greys. White towers and white snow and white statues, black shadows and black trees, the dark grey sky above. A pure world, Sansa thought. I do not belong here. Yet she stepped out all the same.

If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him--valar morghulis.

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools.