This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.

Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.

Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.

There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

...William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to say 'no offense meant' than actually to refrain from giving offense.

Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.