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

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.

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.

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

You know, you can only throw in so many haymakers before one misses and you get knocked out

I don't have the body for this," I quipped, lifting my chin to a voluptous woman nearby who shook her hips zealously to the beat. "No curves." Jev's eyes held mine. "Are you asking my opinion?

You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything

Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.

We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished.

Your future depends on what you do today.

I'm quite excited to not play a Xena type character - it's probably closer to me than any character I've ever played.

People want to work with a person, not for a company.