I don't try to take a person out of our world and put them into my world; that wouldn't work. It's sort of like bad Photoshop: If you see something Photoshopped together - and even if it's done pretty well - the eye catches on it. That happens a lot when people try to cut and paste people from our world into their fourteenth-century historical romance novel.

I believe a writer's most important skill lies in being able to see things from different perspectives.

Simmon pushed his hair out of his eyes, laughing boyishly. "You can't argue your way out of this one! She's obviously stupid for you. And you're just plain stupid, so it's a great match.

But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.

If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.