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

The main reason I want someone to read a story of mine is so they can enjoy it and feel like they got something interesting out of it.

Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.

She smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care.

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.

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

Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.