I mean, it's one thing saying you've got the best god, but sayin' it's the only real one is a bit of a cheek, in my opinion. I know where I can find at least two any day of the week. And they say ever...
Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of w...
How can you protect yourself by carrying a sword if you don’t know how to use it?’Not me, sir. Other people. They see the sword and don’t attack me,’ said Maladict patiently.Yes, but if they did, lad,...
History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be...
Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.
Hell needed horribly bright, self-centered people like Eric. They were much better at being nasty than demons could ever manage
He's a bit set in his ways.Congealed, I should think.
He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.
He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.
Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladder...
Genuine anger was one of the world’s great creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn’t mean you let it trickle away. It meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a workin...
Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.
Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility.
Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly explode they'd seen the need for gods as the sort of s...
Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had.
Decided to put aside ethnic differences in the cause of making more money.
Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.
But what we have here is not a nice girl, as generally understood. For one thing, she’s not beautiful. There’s a certain set to the jaw and arch to the nose that might, with a following wind and in th...
Broadly, therefore, the three even now lurching across the deserted planks of the Brass Bridge were dead drunk assassins and the men behind them were bent on inserting the significant comma.
Apply logic in places where it wasn’t intended to exist.