A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

He sat upon his throne, which is made of skulls.

Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately represent their future behaviour; they merely represent a current attitude, which may or may not be translated into future behaviour.

It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected...but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction.