We could have had it all....

The unread is always better than the unreadable..

I take things too seriously..

I only have control over what I do..

I have architects write to me and ask me: How do you - and what do you do to - design the magic thing? I answer that very carefully. It's not necessa….

I’m worse at what I do best..

"The harder you work, the luckier you get" is true in all things..

I imitate everyone except myself..

Taiwan is the Republic of China, the Republic of China is Taiwan..

Me? I slept like the dead, which I hoped wasn’t a sign of things to come..

Do your best. And then let life do the rest..

Everything is dead while it lives..

Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist..

I go into a movie sort of saying what it's not going to be..

No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously..

If you cast your supporting cast well, it should be seamless. You shouldn't even notice who's a big part and who's a small part. A good cast enriches….

Old Magic, Old Ways, the Old Ones themselves often seem powerless in a new place..

What is not possible is not to choose..

Money equals freedom..

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't..

There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo..