A desert's a stupid place to put a river.

What I'm hoping to do though is to ground my extrapolations in specificity, and to make sure that the story I tell is deliberately and honestly told.

Debts are a heavy burden. Throw them off, and you walk free.

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

They say in the military that a good battle plan can last as long as five minutes in real fighting. After that, it comes down to if the general is favored by fate and the spirits.

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.