In a world of unlimited possibilities, there is always the possibility that there are no possibilities.

Why you decrepit old mage! You couldn't turn water into ice in the dead of winter!

over protective? a butler in a grade- B movie? someones jewish mother? you got it

Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle after candle to keep away the darkness. We don't see that the darkness has a purpose — though we may not understand it — and so, in our terror, we end up burning down the house!

I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters.

You choose to go voluntarily into the fire. The blaze might well destroy you. But if you survive, every blow of the hammer will serve to shape your being. Every drop of water wrung from you will temper and strengthen your soul.

Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.