In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City")

I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there.

Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.

Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better.

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.