I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination.

My characters often start out with a loss of some sort, usually a loss of emotion or purpose or hope. What I do in the course of my writing is weave a thematic arc of fulfillment. It is my constant theme as a creator.

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.

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.

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

The world is shaped by two things — stories told and the memories they leave behind.

Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all.