Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a ragged edge at the end of a novel.

Wolves have no kings.

Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

When both my editors say 'This is really bad, you need to change this,' I ignore that at my peril.

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.