I span the entire geek spectrum.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own tastes and opinions shift and the more you start to see things you could have written differently in the detail, or done differently on the broader scale of plot and character.

The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.

Armour... is part of a state of mind... in which you admit the possibility... of being hit.