Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears fr….

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath..

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times..

The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted….

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think..

So yes. It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many w….

I think the best part of being an author is that I get to learn about anything I want and explain it away as research..

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the fut….

It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to be itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true..

We all become what we pretend to be..

I'm pretty good at putting up drywall and I'm an excellent kisser. That's pretty much all of my skills right there..

It doesn't eat meat." I said. "It's a herbivore. It's like a big cow." Denna looked at me and started to laugh. Not hysterical laughter, but the help….

It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort of antagonist at all. A story….

But even this piece of flattery couldn't distract me from the fact that I was in the center of the Fae realm, blind, stark naked, and without the sli….

You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared..

I have had a few gentlemen let me know they find my manly beardiness somewhat alluring. Never any ladies though..

Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud?.

You,” I said, “are sweet music in a distant room..

Coming to grips with being a bit of a celebrity. That's not anything I ever expected to have to deal with in my life..

For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for..

I've never really understood the desire people have to quantify a baby. "He's X big and Y long," As if the baby is a fish you're not sure you're goin….