I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.

Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.

I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'

I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Our children change us... whether they live or not.