After seven years of writing - and working many jobs to support my family - I finally got published.

We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.

Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.

My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.

Trust your luck, Taran Wanderer. But don't forget to put out your nets!

Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.