Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.

How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.

You should know how terrible a power belief is, especially in the wrong hands -- and how do you tell which hands are wrong? Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow.

I may have one more 'Star Trek' novel in me, but it would be in the old universe, not the new one.

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life - how terrible! Nita gulped for control as she remembered Fred's word of just this morning, an eternity ago. And this was what being a wizard was about. Keeping terrible things from happening, even when it hurts. Not just power, or control of what ordinary people couldn't control, or delight in being able to make strange things happen. Those were the side effects - not the reason, the purpose.