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.

I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff.

Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.

Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.

I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.

Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces.