Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.

Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.

Some people feed you with love.

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.

Fantasy gets a mixed reception - a lot of fantasy is formulaic but most of the award-winning fantasy on the contrary tends to be the stuff at the edges of the genre, rather than swimming in the middle.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.