Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.

I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place.

One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an old young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.

If you're going to risk dying, there's no sense doing it wet, cold and hungry unless absolutely necessary.

Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.