I am a great believer that all the primary research has to be done before principle writing begins. I'm a huge advocate of plotting.

But what science cannot understand, it dismisses.

Abraham Lincoln once said that if you are a racist, I will attack you with the north. And those are the principles that I carry with me in the workplace.

I'm always reading. Here's where an ebook reader really comes into its own. When I travel, it allows me to carry a huge chunk of my library with me. Usually, when I am writing one project, I am researching the next or beginning to pull together the material for the book after that.

Just as a pebble thrown into the water creates ripples, so our thoughts create similar effects on our palms.

And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty.

Once you have been touched by magic, you are forever changed. You leave a trail.