“When I get tired of new clunky writing, I resort to old fashioned story tellers, like Wilkie Collins.”

“All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!”

“If I was an author I'd be worried, as I'm a story teller I'll just get drunk and make it up as i go along.”

“I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller”

“I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel”

“We who work in fantasy today take the threads from all the story tellers of the past. From the ancient, many colored threads we work to weave a new cloth. If the landscape, the characters, and the creatures here call up the old tales told the beside the fire, when stories went from mouth to ear instead of page to eye then I have woven well and the dreamer continues to dream.”