Quotes from Philip Athans

A religion without followers is just a weird guy with strange ideas.

Stupid foes were easy to defeat and angry foes even easier. Mix the two together, though, and you're in for a fight.

If a villain is someone whose motivations we understand but whose methods we find abhorrent, a hero is someone whose motivations we understand and whose methods we find inspirational.

If they can't find those answers in your holy writings, they'll move on to the next person's holy writings.

People are looking for someone to tell them what to do and whether what they're doing is good or bad.

The various deities worshiped over the course of human history have very little in common except that all of them have an easily expressed identity and a clearly articulated mission statement.

Because most people don't know that the little dagger symbol on the New York Times bestsellers list means that retailers have reported significant bulk orders, you can buy a bunch for the devoted, then handsell them yourself. If you can swing 100,000 copies, that's usually enough to get you on the list, and from then on you're not just a prophet but a New York Times bestselling author, too!