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Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown a...more

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I have dreamed of that song, of the strange words to that simple rhyme-song, and on several occasions I have understood what she was saying, in my dre...more

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There's a thing that happens in Hollywood, when you hand in a script with magic in it, and the people at the studio who read it say "We don't quite un...more

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It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.

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Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. ...more

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M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises...

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When I was a boy, Ray Bradbury picked stories from his books of short stories he thought younger readers might like and published them as R Is for Roc...more

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Mr. Charles Dickens was serializing his novel Oliver Twist; Mr. Draper had just taken the first photograph of the moon, freezing her pale face on cold...more

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Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality.Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it...more

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If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else ...more