If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.

You want to publish with a publisher because a publisher knows how to publish a book. And you don't. You really don't.

I was just wondering why you're here.

There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.

I'd love to take a stab at writing videogames. There are a lot of storytelling opportunities that really aren't being taken advantage of in that field. I'd like to experiment with telling a truly non-linear story.

Speculative fiction is where my heart lies. It's what I read growing up, and it's what I read as an adult.

It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.