Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.

The converse held reassuringly true: daylight was safe. Daylight was always safe.

The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.

Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats.

Never a possession, always the possessor, with skin as pale as smoke, and eyes tawny and sharp as yellow wine: Desire is everything you have ever wanted. Whoever you are. Whatever you are. Everything.

I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.