“Add smoke, not fire. You want to confuse your competition, not kill them.”
“I want this chimney to smoke worse than Lucifer's own fire. Let's add another brick to be certain.Dougal stiffened. He'd thought they were repairing the chimney, but they wanted it to smoke. What in the hell was going on?”
“...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.”
“Pure intuitive faith differs as much from fanaticism as fire from smoke, or music from mere noise; those who confuse the two are like the deaf.”
“If somebody wants to be your enemy, there's only one thing you can do. You give them exactly what they want. It confuses them and makes them wonder what you're up to.”
“When your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them to stop fighting?”