Better to mock the game than to play and lose.

We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

He pushed away from her and raised his arm, forcing his stump into her face. "A Hand without a hand? A bad jape, sister. Don't ask me to rule.

The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.

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.

With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.