This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.

It looked the sort of book described in library catalogues as 'slightly foxed,' although it would be more honest to admit that it looked as though it had beed badgered, wolved and possibly beared as well.

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.

She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't.

Most gods find it hard to walk and think at the same time.

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.