I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.

Dead … might not be quiet at all.

As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.

I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better.

The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.