I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation.

Sometimes you make your mistakes with your eyes wide open.

The world is full of wonders that cannot be measured. That is why they are wonders.

I didnt want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.

I enjoy my pettiness with a dose of wit.

In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.

I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion of some interesting text, usually, but not always, philosophical.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.

Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.

Perhaps a great love is never returned.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong .

We all have human emotions that rob our lives.

Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world

Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing.

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.