There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

Eanna love us, Adaon preserve us, Morian guard our souls.

One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.

Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

How we remember changes how we have lived. Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.

Fantasy is, at its best, the purest access to storytelling that we have. It universalizes a tale, it evokes wonder and timeless narrative power, it touches upon inner journeys, it illuminates our collective and individual pasts, throws a focus beam on the present day, and presages the dangers and promises of the future.