It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.

As a writer I'm more drawn to villains who are just slightly mad.

I have no doubt there are magician psychopaths, and magician serial killers. I doubt Brakebills admissions is very good at screening for those.

I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house.

About as close you can get to the perfect cerebral thriller: searingly smart, ridiculously funny, and fast as hell... I defy anybody to read the first page and not keep going to the last.

Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.

We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.