"I was listening to Tim Powers talking and he said he didn't want his villains just defeated, he wanted them humiliate…"

"Writers are a basically insecure bunch. We are convinced that everything we do sucks, all the time. It's something yo…"

"I don't find fantasy to be more or less suited to philosophical questions than any other genre, really. I think that …"

"I think that the successful genres of a particular period are reflections of the needs and thoughts and social strugg…"

"For the moment, it's called the Dagger and the Coin, but with any luck, that'll swap out for a better name. There are…"

"It’s always been like this. Every generation finds its own way to show that it isn’t like the one before. Too much ri…"

"Whether or not the artistic quality of the bullfight outweighs the moral question of the animals’ suffering is someth…"

"There is an image I will never lose, much as I wish I could. It is of a man standing with half his face held in his r…"

"The crowd are on their feet, stamping and cheering, but El Cid just stands and stares at the bull in grave silence, h…"

"What you are interested in is the art whereby a man using no tricks reduces a raging bull to his dimensions, and this…"