Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time..

Magick may be no more than the willful invocation of awe..

Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone..

Normal is a bitter pill that we rail against..

Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have..

Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you'll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst..

Art should never be a slave to commerce, but for all working artists that's exactly what it must be..

Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousa….

No story has a beginning, and no story has an end. Beginnings and endings may be conceived to serve a purpose, to serve a momentary and transient int….

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in..

All too infrequently do I encounter a new voice as delightful, compelling, and intelligent as that of Molly Tanzer..

You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything that they ….

The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to some level beneath herself. And sh….

Every month, the US is spending more on the Iraqi war than it took to reach Saturn and Titan. Mass murder is expensive, and good science is relativel….

I need a world filled with wonder, with awe, with awful things. I couldn't exist in a world devoid of marvels, even if the marvels are terrible marve….

A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be..