Sometimes you make your mistakes with your eyes wide open.

Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read -- clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've read in quite some time and just plain reading fun. M.J. Rose is at the top of her game, and that is saying something.

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

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.

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