We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.

I don’t think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost – certainly not to the point of giving up – but there’s something to be said for a book that isn’t instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading.

There was not enough pain in Akhil’s body to pay for all of this.

Askade took the battertoast, looked at it blearily. “I can’t rewire it into a death ray without some extra parts,” he said, and took a bite. “Hm. Tastes okay. What’s the problem?

Someday we will be only spirit, and all one; but here on earth we’re made of earth, and sometimes flesh must touch.

Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author’s intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don’t.

I’m very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn’t be? But it’s not a choice I made.

Creating the fictional background for a game world isn’t significantly different from creating a background for fiction.

Well, it’s an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.