
P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw.

The problems for which I could find no solution in fact had no solution.

All Empires fall, All ages die, All strife shall be in vain. All Kings go down, All hope must fail, But Tanelorn remains Our Tanelorn remains ...

Man was not born to a world of justice. But he can create such a world!

I can accept then, that we are more than forsaken, because there was never anything there to forsake us.

Yet the place was strangely old-fashioned. The strongest feeling I got from New York at first was nostalgia. A 1930s vision of the future.

I walk the moonbeam roads a silver web connecting the many worlds of the Multiverse.

a society dedicated solely to the preservation of her past, soon has only her past to sell.

Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics.

The mask of kindly patronage had dropped away to show the hatred and the fear beneath.

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

Religion was the creation of fear. Knowledge destroys fear. Without fear, religion can't survive.

We would all be better off dead, useless eaters of the lotus that we are.

We live in a world where many kinds of regression dignify themselves with the mantle of progress.

It's History that's caused all the troubles in the past.

People are not alarmed by the unusual so long as it is placed in an acceptable context.

This gentleman is known the width and breadth of the comics world as that bastard Klaw.

Time is the enemy of identity

The Lords of Chaos are
the enemies of Logic,
the jugglers of Truth,
the molders of Beauty

Ah, the world was ever so. How sad are heroes when their tasks are done ...

I have sometimes wondered what social stability is. It is probably just a question of points of view and personal experience.

I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion.

Death is the promise we're all born with, sir. A good
death is better than a poor one.

The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.

Life's not easy, it is a hard task to live it well and with grace - but, by Hades, let's not complicate it with deities and water-nymphs!

women of exotic appearance.

The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.

Treasures are not won by care and forethought
but by swift slaying and reckless attack.

I think the notion of worldbuilding is a failure of literary sophistication.

It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

They offer you so much power. All that patriarchy! So tempting to take advantage of it.

He knew that for all his admission of Chaos he would be better able to do what he wished in a world ordered by some degree of Law. The

In an infinite universe, all may become real sooner or later. Yet it is always up to mankind to make real what it really wishes to be real.

Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?

But people may do great good accidentally, though with evil intentions - conversely people may do great evil though having the best of intentions.

The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.