The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.

Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

People are always the start for meanimals. When I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings,immortals, the deadthese are all people to me.

The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.