There has been a lot of bad fantasy in the past - I'm by no means saying that all classic fantasy out there is bad - but there has been a lot of bad fantasy written by people who read a lot of fantasy and so all they keep doing is recycling it.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

A weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy.

It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.

I do not in fact use many puns. Certainly there are far fewer than people believe. But I suspect the ones I do occasionally use tend to hang around in people's memories for a while.

He stared at his feet. “I’m still very ignorant,” he said, “but at least I’m ignorant about really important things.