This isn't about what is . . . it's about what people think is. It's all imaginary anyway. That's why it's important. People only fight over imaginary things.

Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile and look down at the Earth there are no national boundaries. There aren't even national boundaries when you get down and walk around. They're just imaginary lines we draw on maps. I just get fascinated by people who assume that things that are imaginary have no relevance to their lives.

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

The dead can't hurt you, they're dead. Living things can hurt you, living people can hurt you but the dead can't.

I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening.

Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.