In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.

I relished the sweet sense of keeping a unique secret in my mind - a wonderful magical universe that I could go to any time, any place, and no one had to know. It was my personal place, better than any I've read about in any other book. And when I wrote, I was in the process of pulling that personal universe out of nothing and into the cold reality of the greater world.

Even for the people who are color-blind to any degree, I believe their experience would also be affected [ in Lords of Rainbow ] if everyone else too only perceived the world in colorless monochrome.

Fantasy is not the literature of subversion of the status quo but of 'awakening to' the status quo.

Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it?

Here is where I like to burst in as a writer, to take one strong sensory detail or image and instead of enhancing it or directing attention to it by shouting about it, I simply take it away.

In the plains the grass grows tall, since there is no one to cut it. There is no one to water it either.