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.

How do you get all those coins?" asked Mort. IN PAIRS.

People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.

You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say.

People don't like to say comic so they say Graphic Novel, despite the fact that I don't think the true Graphic Novel has been written anywhere.

Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?"

And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today.