I am happy. I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve. I am happy.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

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

To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!

Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor. Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's time to digest and then make something. But at some point, it will be time to return to the restaurant.

The satisfaction of short fiction does not come close to the rich pleasure I get as a writer in the long deep immersion in the same long work and its growing complexity. I suppose you might say I love to wallow in my characters and imaginary worlds. I love to play with the whole necklace, not just one glittering stone.

In the desert, the only god is a well.