The world was floods above and fire below

It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil and maybe slpits apart and multiplies. So every evil thing is a sign of the absence of deity

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

...the reasons just reassemble themselves in different patterns every time I think about it.

I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.

Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last