Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.

I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.

I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

Any moment called NOW is always full of possibles.

Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.

My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.

I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

There will always be con artists, I know that, ” Warren admitted. “But that doesn’t mean clairvoyance isn’t real.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

To oppose something is to maintain it.

Fortunately, both my parents, especially my mom, have guided me, and been amazing at handling my career and my finances. They taught me not to buy what I don't need, when I'm not working that much.

This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.

We've all got troubles. We all make mistakes. But let's not take a little river turn it into lake.

Life is scarier than death.

Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.

When you're leading, don't talk.