A troublesome question? Those tend to be the only whorthwhile kind.

We are more than the parts that form us.

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

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.

If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way

It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

I'm honestly not a big fan of pitching things. I'm a firm believer of letting the product speak for iteself.