Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.

I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.

We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.

You never know where you're going to find the same thoughts in another brain, but when it happens you know it right off, just like you were connected by a small electrical wire that suddenly glows red hot and sparks.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

I spend my time dwelling on revenge and try to deal with the monsters crawling out of the ashes.