I want to make it so that so many things happen... that you didn't expect would happen in this series, that you realize that you have to read every one of them.

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.

The best place to start an adventure is with a quiet, perfect life . . . and someone who realizes that it can’t possibly be enough.

There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.