"In part, The Prince of Nothing is about the dialogue between these two species of faith, the one that identifies itse…"

"Palpable gods. Real magic. A certain, objective moral order. Apocalyptic retribution. The primary difference is that …"

"I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying."

"It is no accident that fantasy is preoccupied with our pre-Enlightenment, pre-crisis past. The contemporary world is …"

"Johnston's picture of intentionally rising from the cracks and gaps of an intrinsically contradictory reality happens…"

"I write about the death of magic. All of it."

"... science, being science, can only wage total war. No traditional discourse has survived the scientific rationaliza…"

"Why break hearts or blow minds when you can rot souls?"

"Our ‘epoch of thinking’ teeters upon the abyssal, a future so radical as to make epic fantasy of everything we are pr…"

"The world is a big place and our brain is only three pounds."