If death is truly a curse,' Spock said, as soberly as some power pronouncing a hundred years of sleep, but with a glint of private, serene humor in his eyes. 'There is little logic in condemning something one has not experienced...or does not remember experiencing.

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

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.

It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

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.

A little science. A little magic. A little chicken soup.