My ideal reader is me. And yes, my ideal reader comes with me and is forgiving.

There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine.

I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.

We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different.

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.

Never mind. There. For good or bad. It's done.