The real secret of magic is that there is no magic.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.

Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.

You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.

Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.