Everyone on the team is very, very motivated,

if the suggestion that the minuscule black turnip you call a heart is suddenly overflowing with generosity toward me leaves me wanting to arm myself and put my back against a wall.

Compared to what she was running, these things are pig heavy and have no power. If I had to jump into an Indy Car, I’d be as lost as she was. Now that she’s getting...

There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.

What thief does not fight to hold what he has?””One that has something better” – Locke Lamora to the Gray king

We like what we like, we want what we want, and nobody needs to give us permission to feel that way!

We are set for a repeat performance, … For this race we are flying the Stockton Dodge colors on our 08 Dodge and we want to put their banner right in Victory Lane.

Didn’t Chains tell you about the Golden Theological Principle?””The what?””The single congruent aspect of every known religion. The one shared, universal assumption about the human condition.””What is it?””He said that life boils down to standing...

Actually, we have a lot of traditions for that. You’ll find out

Am I making myself clear, Orrin? I don’t regret how I’ve lived these past few years. I move where I will. I set no appointments. I guard no borders. What landbound king has the freedom...

It was raining when Amarelle Parathis went out just after sunset to find a drink, and there was strange magic in the rain. It came down in pale lavenders and coppers and reds, soft lines...

Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You’ll see.

he explains. There was a lot of rubber on the track from the IRL practice and it began to sprinkle just as I went out. However, I knew we had a great Dodge and figured...

Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don’t need to justify it to anyone… not even to ourselves.

Well, in Shades’ Hill you may be able to eat cold bacon and dirt pies off one another’s asses for all your old master cares. But now you’re a Gentleman Bastard, emphasis on the Gentleman....

I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price the next day.

A troupe learns to play like we all learn to screw, stumbling and jostling until everything’s finally in the right place.

I’m not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of confining the female characters in my story to placid, helpless secondary places in the narrative is so goddamn boring...

If you want to write a negative review, don’t tickle me gently with your aesthetic displeasure about my work. Unleash the goddamn Kraken.”[on Twitter, July 17, 2012]

I can’t quite remember a race like this, … It all started out fine. Our Mr. Gas Dodge was strong and we were making headway, in fact, by Lap 69 we were in the lead....

Advice,” Doña Vorchenza chuckled. “Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one’s mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you’re a nag. Give it at seventy and you’re...

To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!

Sweat, scalded meat, puke, blood, smoke and a dozen kinds of bad ale and wine: the bouquet of civilized nightlife