"Kings lack the caution of common men."

"Been on the river thirty years, York. Rafted down to New Orleans when I was just a boy, and worked flatboats and keel…"

"As a writer, my goal, (which I'm never going to achieve, and I know that, and no writer can achieve that,) but my goa…"

"Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends."

"Back at the Philadelphia Worldcon (which seems a million years ago), I announced the famous five-year gap: I was goin…"

"I've been killing characters my entire career, maybe I'm just a bloody minded bastard, I don't know, [but] when my ch…"

"The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real... for a …"

"There are many different kinds of writers, I like to use the analogy of architects and gardeners. There are some writ…"

"I think that for science fiction, fantasy, and even horror to some extent, the differences are skin-deep. I know ther…"

"Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the crudest is the one called love."