Anyway, if you stopped tellin’ people it’s all sorted out after they’re dead, they might try sorting it all out while they’re alive.
Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realise that if there was any power in demonology, then it lay with the demons. Using it for your own purposes would be like trying to beat mice to death with a rattlesnake.
Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.
Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium.
And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.
And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things.
And he dreamed the dream of all those who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that you would have to employ two people just to hold your trousers up.
And at the end of time, living is about fightin’ against everything.
An error, sir, is worse than a sin, the reason being that a sin is often a matter of opinion or viewpoint or even of timing but an error is a fact and it cries out for correction.
Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.
All tribal myths are true, for a given value of “true.”
All things are defined by names. Change the name, and you change the thing.