I'm sorry." About what?" He shrugged, made uncomfortable by the question."I'm not sure. It's a Canadian thing.

What do they do for a village idiot when you're here?

Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all.

Large men in black plate mail with red cloaks and plumes don't sneak worth a damn.

Violence is never the answer but sometimes, like with cockroaches, it is the only possible response.

Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.

Most people don't care who's in charge as long as someone is.

I tell you what I won't put up with. You chose how to behave.

All writers believe in the magic of books; Jim Hines has created a system where that magic becomes real, usable, and very definitely not always safe.

The world tilted slightly sideways. 'I think I need to sit down.' The floor seemed like the best option. It was close and he'd already proved that he could hit it. His legs folded.

It took him forever to get to downtown Vancouver although Tony had to admit that saving the world by public transportation was a particularly Canadian way to do things.

Our children and grand-children will not make us people, their availability does not make us different from animal

Poor Ramon.

There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa.

Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!

Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.

The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

If you are a child of God, know that every promise in the Bible is yours.

It would be a mistake to export western management to a friendly country.