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

He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.

Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow; it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

Because there's someone else here in East Carmin. Someone hopelessly unsuitable. It's all a really bad idea and will lead to trouble of the worst sort. But no matter what, every minute in her presence makes my life a minute more complete.

...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.