I put the ick in magic.

You need a prostate to understand,” I said.

All power is the same. Magic. Physical strength. Economic strength. Political strength. It all serves a single purpose-it gives its possessor a broader spectrum of choices. It creates alternative courses of action.

I just stood there staring, because while I've seen a lot of weird things, I hadn't ever seen that.

It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.

The impossible we do immediately. The unimaginable takes a little while.

Like “love,” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.