But magic, like everything else, follows certain natural laws. Magic needs energy wherever it can find it. If no other source of energy is available, it will take the life force of the magician who created it. That is why every use of magic weakens the magician.

The day we stop learning is the day we die.

But magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses.

The fifth force was the magic of Time, the greatest of all the magics.

Negotiations are about controlling things, about being in the driver's seat and make one tiny mistake; you're dead. I made one tiny mistake, I wore women's clothes

Water is the life-giver and the death-bringer.

They [my characters]speak to me all the time! In fact some of them never shut up!