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

The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.

In Lords of Rainbow I start out by taking away color from the world, and in the process show color's vital place in our lives. At least I hope that by the end of the book it's a portion of what the reader comes away with - a sense of how much color perception enriches our lives and how its lack can make our sensory experience incomplete.

Q: Why do I love thee, O Night? A: Because you know I will never answer.

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

The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.