"God does not play games with His loyal servants," said the Metatron, but in a worried tone of voice. "Whooo-eee," said Crowley. "Where have you been?"

Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot.

Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.

Putting up a statue to someone who tried to stop a war is not very, um, statuesque. Of course, if you had butchered five hundred of your own men out of arrogant carelessness, we'd be melting the bronze already.

I would advise budding writers some other kind of job, unless they think they're very, very lucky.

Magic is just a way of saying 'I don't know.'

The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.