When I am down, there is nothing like a bowl of hot popcorn; popcorn means great movies and reading fantasy books wrapped up in a soft blanket to me.

The fastest I've ever done a book is a 112,000-word book in about a month.

Writing with other people is absolutely delightful. It's social, which a writer doesn't usually get to do.

There's more than enough seriousness in the world.

I think canceling a game that is making a profit, along with destroying jobs and an online community, is entirely unethical.

These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths.

Other people can have all the children they want. Some people ask for no-smoking sections. I ask for no children.

They didn’t have to be true to be good.

The willpower to do anything would come, the songs and writings said, if the motive was pure.

Teach what you know, regardless of when you have learned it – teach what you learned yesterday sagely, as if you have known it all your life, and teach what you have known for decades with enthusiasm, as if you learned it only yesterday.