Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.

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

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.

Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go.

My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer―

The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.