This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

Evil people naturally assume that you will use that power exactly as they would use it.

I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones, and you're a lot more likely to find one of the latter than the former your first time through the tale.