Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look all over the place for the dice.

The price of being the best is having to be the best.

I commend my soul to any god that can find it.

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.

I really wish that peoplewould just say, 'Yes, it's a comic. Yes, this is fantasy. Yes, this is Science Fiction,' and defend the genre instead of saying, 'Horror is a bit passe so this is Dark Fantasy,' and that' s playing someone else's game. So that's why I say I'm a fantasy writer and to hell with 'It doesn't read like what I think of as a fantasy'. In that case what you think of as a fantasy is not a fantasy. Or there is more to it than you think.

What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.