Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mission.

The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.

Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.

Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water.

If the fiercest conglomerate monsters had souls, with all that implied, who could condemn them as evil?

At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.

I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way.