You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.

...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that.

They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.

What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do yourself harm by moving away from the series and the genre. By trying things not based in that particular mode of writing, you will just lose readers.

The US dollar is our currency but your problem.

My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.

We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).