Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

Literature is a house with many mansions.

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

With the possible exception of steampunk aficionados, many reasonable people must view my fascination with Victorian and Edwardian popular fiction - mysteries, fantasy, and adventure - as eccentric or merely antiquarian.

I'm sometimes willing to put in vast, even inordinate amounts of time if I find a project that interests me.

In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.