The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.

Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.

The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.

These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.

Theres no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.