It is my sincere desire that my research and hard work will help create a world where we all learn to walk this Earth, safe, enlightened and free from the perils of cruelty, ignorance, and all the other dark and sinister forces, which make assholes possible.

— Alexei Maxim Russell

Just like the notion of "Internet natives", who have never known a world without Internet access, we, who have lived our entire lives with video games, can be known as "video game natives.

— Alexei Maxim Russell

Never interrupt a faerie circle ceremony. And, if a faerie has appeared to you, visually, do not speak to it until it has spoken to you. These two transgressions are considered so rude, that the faeries may literally attack you, on the spot.

— Alexei Maxim Russell

Never invite any kind of spirit to enter either your home or your person. This is an extremely important point to remember. To do so always risk to unwittingly invite evil spirits in, instead. Good spirits never need to be invited in.

— Alexei Maxim Russell

Nowadays, the Internet decides if you're good, not the big man in the big office. No matter how important that man thinks he is, everyone else knows that he's not important anymore, and the Internet decides these things, here in the modern age.

— Alexei Maxim Russell

People always knock what's new, but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it.

— Alexei Maxim Russell

Perhaps, Katrina, in a library just like this one, you will find that all the things you thought were impossible and all the things that everyone, throughout history, have thought were impossible are not really impossible at all... they were never impossible.

— Alexei Maxim Russell

The father and daughter made their way north, through unknown sylvan paradises where only the owls and skunks know their way around. The hard work of paddling non-stop for many hours had long since stopped being difficult for Steamed. In spite of her beauty and grace, her back had grown strong and sinewy from years of canoe trips. She reveled in the exhilaration it always brought her, after the first few hours left her body insensible to pain or discomfort. Warm and tingly, lulled into peaceful contemplation by hours of the rhythmic paddling, the smell of the water, exotic blooms, animal musk. It all combined as one to make her feel so alive. Especially when it rained, and her body steamed against the cool drops, feeling invincible against the elements. The mountain of her father's back was like a rock against anything nature could throw against them. The stream of fragrant pipe-smoke still flowing from his lips, regardless of any obstacle. She felt at that moment, nothing would ever stop her father's pipe from smoking. Nothing, not death, not any force of the living or spirit world, would ever still her father's heart. Rain cleansing her to the core, she was a spring of raw power and self-reliance, paddling against all adversity--their master completely. Her father's daughter. At times like that, when it rained, she entirely understood and shared her father's outlook on life.

— Alexei Maxim Russell

The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me, and I'll take you to another world.

— Alexei Maxim Russell

The Japanese have two words: "UCI" meaning inside and "Soto" meaning outside. UCI refers to their close friends, the people in their inner circle. Soto refers to anyone who is outside that circle. And how they relate and communicate to the two are drastically different. To the Soto, they are still polite, and they might be outgoing, on the surface, but they will keep them far away, until they are considered considerate and trustworthy enough to slip their way into the UCI category. Once you are UCI, the Japanese version of friendship is entire universes beyond the average American friendship! UCI friends are for life. UCI friends represent a sacred duty. A Japanese friend, who has become an UCI friend, is the one who will come to your aid, in your time of need, when all your western "friends" have turned their back and walked away.

— Alexei Maxim Russell