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.

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

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.

Your mind is a gift. Your heart is a prize. Your soul is a blessing. Your life is a reward.

Live each day with thankful gratitude.

Each moment is a poetic expression of the undefined. As long as it remains undefined, it has all the beauty of the world and it steps inside to nurture your dreams.

Obama's space policy doesn't differ much from George W. Bush's.

Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn't guarantee you intelligence of another sort.You can behave just as stupidly with a good college education.

We should create a holiday that celebrates money for what it is, essentially worthless paper, upon which we agree to pretend it has value.

It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.

Most people are concerned only with what they can get from the world, but it is what we are able to give to others that determines the quality of our life

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else.

Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.