Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.

I span the entire geek spectrum.

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?

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.

'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.