I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.

Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.

There’s no such thing as too much champagne. Though your head will try to tell you otherwise tomorrow.

Weakness is a guise. Wear it when they need to know you're human, but never when you feel it.

My stories usually begin with the characters and some elements of how power (personal, political, magical) functions in the world. The rest develops as I write, and research helps a great deal with that. If you're going to write about an agrarian economy, research agrarian economies. If your main character is starving, then you should know what it means for a malnourished body to break down.

What is infinite? The universe and the greed of men.

Just because you escape one trap, doesn't mean you will escape the next.