Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.

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.

If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the reader. That said, humor writing is the hardest kind of writing there is.

Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.

If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky.

What do they do to students at the University who eavesdrop?” Bast asked curiously. “I haven’t the slightest idea. I was never caught. I think making you sit and listen to the rest of my story should be punishment enough.