Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy.

Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful potentiality waiting to be shaped.

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

The only ones who ever come here from your lands are the minstrels, and the lovers, and the mad. And you don't look like much of a minstrel, and you're— pardon me for saying so lad, but it's true— ordinary as cheese crumbs. So it's love if you ask me.

The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.

People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.

Sometimes the way to do what you hope to do will be clear cut, and sometimes it will be almost impossible to decide whether or not you are doing the correct thing, because you'll have to balance your goals and hopes with feeding yourself, paying debts, finding work, settling for what you can get.