I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.

A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that.

Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much explication and too many overt gestures of affection.

What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think.

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.

Your brain works with all the subtlety of a malicious child.

Children are dying." Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.