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

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

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

"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…"

"Sure. Some of the reviews have been very flattering, but the series is not finished yet. The end needs to be as stron…"

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

"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…"

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

"I'm not an "American First" (and maybe because I read science fiction) I'm a "Terran First". I'm a human being first.…"