It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.

You can never be sure where you are with magic.

I wish magic was more dramatic

Magic isn’t inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.

Enemies are people who's story you haven't heard, or who's face you haven't seen.

We can serve humanity with passionate commitment to our divine purpose.

Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.

To live is to be slowly born.

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.

The goal is to know how not-to-know.

I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.

The only way faith can be relevant is by preparing the mind to receive it.

I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.

If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.