As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food.

A few hundred years ago there were no differences between magic and medicine.

If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.

A named thing is a tamed thing.

A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.