I love it when people want to interpret my books.

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.

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

Funny, I don't particularly care for either "laws" or "order". Liberty is messy. Freedom yields imperfect results.

You can run a business any way you like, but you'll run it better if you build it around your strengths.

People who become successful take every “today’s victory” as a rehearsal for tomorrows trophy.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.

A genius is a man who has two great ideas.

I definitely want to buy my mom a house once I get enough funds. I think that's definitely something that I want to do. I think that any person, it's their dream to buy their mother a house.

We want to move even a step forward toward resolving the abduction issue.

I cannot, in my old age, live off pieces of my youth.