Words are the litmus paper of the mind.

He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.

Experience has taught me that you feel better on a flight if you avoid chicken fat in plastic sauce.

Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look all over the place for the dice.

Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it lay with the demons. Using it for your own purposes would be like trying to beat mice to death with a rattlesnake.

It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse.

So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn't received and that might have been eaten by gargoyles.