I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

Humans can think inhuman thoughts.

Many an ancient lord's last words have been, 'You can't kill me because I've got magic aaargh.'

Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.

It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings films or is making a point they have never heard of.