Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

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

If you have never changed your mind about some fundamental tenet of your belief, if you have never questioned the basics, and if you have no wish to do so, then you are likely ignorant.

However I will never forget what Marion [Zimmer Bradley] did for me by accepting that first story from a stupid enthusiastic kid.

Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive.

I technically live in the desert - Los Angeles being an artificial oasis - but my interest stems even farther to my own ethnic roots and to my love of antiquity, of the Old World and of the east.

The act of sharing with readers was at first too much of an intimate thing. But it evolved into an intense necessity to share.