Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals

I don’t see why it matters what is written. Not when it’s about people. It can always be crossed out.

You're allowed to grant people into the darkness, but you must allow them to come out again.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.

Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.

Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW.