"For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood."

"I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life."

"I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level."

"If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all."