Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.

Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'

You must become like yourself.

Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.

Sometimes the cost of winning for all the right reasons is so great that spirits die and hearts grow cold.

If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.

When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer and up through Shakespeare and Milton, the most important themes to tackle are those of the mythopoeic domain, tales of the body and mind seen through a temperament and a cosmos divorced from current reality so what is said can be more clear.