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.

No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.

Nature has a surer plan than mortals can devise.

A wise one determines his own fate.

You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god.

It is upon each soul to recognize its limit.

Look to the souls of Your own soldiers, God, who labor in Thine awful cause.