Trees are always the cure for your modern bollocks.
They need to get a good PR guy. What’s a PR guy? They’re kind of like the old Greek sophists who played with words until you believed up was down. PR guys get paid to make people believe that a pile o...
There ye go again, my archdruid said. Using your colon instead of yer brain. Ye believe yer thinkin’ because yer workin’ hard, but all yer doin’ is squeezin’ out shit.
The witch obviously wanted my help with something, and I could only assume that she wanted a new body to inhabit. But I didn’t have any of those currently in stock, and bodies were one of the few thin...
That’s using religion to cudgel people into conformity, and it grinds my gears.
That wasn't English she was speaking: it was the language of diplomacy.
Some o’ the words in this book might not be immediately pronounceable for some readers because they have foreign origins. Heck, I needed help myself. But I like learning new words and how to say them,...
So after I killed him and stowed his body next to the doe, I sampled his smoothie concoction in the parking lot and found it to be quite delicious.
Shared knowledge can weigh heavy in the scales of power, he replied, and I have seen the truth of it since. Controlling what you want shared is always the issue, and writing down nothing is the most e...
Sensei? she asked. Yes? Why are you always leaving about halfway through a workout to give Oberon a snack? What? Well, he’s a good dog. Granted, but he’s a good dog all the time, and the only times...
People do that—cling to their past because it’s the only thing they consider safe. Trying something new or just accepting it turns their livers into jelly. But that’s a load of bollocks. Ye take the n...
Other times escape our notice, slipping by while we are preoccupied, and we do not appreciate their enormity until it’s too late to do anything but regret that we had not paid more attention in the pr...
Oberon:She's a very clever girl, the kind you dont' take home to Ogma.
Now, I will be the first to admit that human life was not worth much to my generation in the Iron Age, but Flidais and her kind are forever rooted in Bronze Age morality, which goes something like thi...
Now, I know I am not much of a craftsman, I said, busily knotting the vines into a circle, but greatness is in the act of creation and not necessarily in the finished product. Creating is the yin to t...
Morrigan visited me in my dreams. It tore me away from a nightmare where I was trying to teach high school science to a room full of creationists, so I was mightily relieved to see the Chooser of the...
Luke Skywalker, hero of the Battle of Yavin, has cast his lot with the rebels, lending his formidable piloting skills to whatever missions his leaders assign him. But he is haunted by his all-too-brie...
Let me tell you, people go on and on about what a great idea electricity was, but I'm going to put toilet paper right next to the wheel and say those are the best ideas anyone's ever had. Scoff at it...
Leif, you spooky bastard, how the hell are ya?
Law is all that separates us from barbarism and the howling within; it is a necessary leash on our darker natures.