"Now you might think I'd be all over this shapeshifting business, Paxto, but if comic books, cartoons, and Sci-Fi Original Movies have taught me anything, it's that shapeshifting comes with a bunch of boring rules and restrictions that limit its potential Turn-Into-A-Bulldozer-Whenever-I-Wantity. 'You can turn into a machine gun but not bullets.' 'Contemporary jazz turns you back to normal.' 'You can only turn into presents your grandma's knitted for you.'"

''There are two kinds of magic in the world: Magic as a force that can grant the wondrous... and then there's narrative magic. The kind where we get the classic phrase:"It's magic we don't have to explain it".

"But Magic is as Magic does. Just funny that way."

An author's ability to solve conflict satisfactorily with magic is directly proportional to how well the reader understands said magic.

Fun fact about voodoo, Larry: can't conjure a *thing* for myself.

Y'see, demons can't resurrect people unless a deal's made. I know, red tape, it'll make you nuts.