There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.

Love and magic are like oil and water--they just don't mix.

There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.

...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.