I would sleep 12 hours a day if I could.

I don't eat fast food often, but I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

Mistakes quickly pile up and coalesce into a reputation, and a reputation is hard to shake.

Growing up, my mom would watch 'Notting Hill' a lot. She loves Hugh Grant.

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

With writing and publishing, my only aim is to live in the aesthetic pleasure dome.

It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out.

Religion helps humanity to pass through its darkest times.

Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour''Well, it's bloody close...''Well, they often are....

You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask

Anything we are preaching to people is what they become

I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you're ginger, you end up pretty quick-witted.

Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.

The entire religion revolves around acknowledging the truth and then acting upon it.

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.

Are all humans human, or are some more human than others?

Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space.