You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals

I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find it odd that I went to both Harvard and Yale, and I guess it is odd, but that's just what people did where I grew up.

Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.

You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.

Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.

It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from genres. You're writing in a genre, there are rules, which is great because then you can break the rules. That's when really exciting things happen.