I want a magical horse that fits in my pocket," Wil said. "And a ring of red amber that gives me power over demons. And an endless supply of cake.

But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.

The good thing about working on the books for 14 years before they hit the shelves is that I worked out most of the kinks long before they were published.

If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.

However, while being able to think about two things at the same time is a terribly convenient, the training it takes to get there is frustrating at best, and at other times rather disturbing. I remember one time I looked for the stone for almost an hour before I consented to ask the other half of me where I'd hidden it, only to find I hadn't hidden the stone at all. I had merely been waiting to see how long I would look before giving up. Have you ever been annoyed and amused with yourself at the same time? It's an interesting feeling, to say the very least.

...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.