The Return of the Sorcerer Quotes

“Stern and white as a tomb, older than the memory of the dead, and built by men or devils beyond the recording of myth, is the mansion in which we dwell.”
― Clark Ashton Smith, The Return of the Sorcerer: The Best of Clark Ashton Smith

“In a less scientific age he would have been a devil-worshiper, a partaker in the abominations of the Black Mass; or he would have given himself to the study and practice of sorcery. His was a religious soul that had failed to find good in the scheme of things; and lacking it, was impelled to make of evil itself an object of secret reverence.

- The Devotee of Evil”
― Clark Ashton Smith, The Return of the Sorcerer: The Best of Clark Ashton Smith

“It is regrettable," resumed Azédarac, "that any question of my holiness and devotional probity should have been raised among the clergy of Averoigne. But I suppose it was inevitable sooner or later— even though the chief difference between myself and many other ecclesiastics is, that I serve the Devil wittingly and of my own free will, while they do the same in sanctimonious blindness.”
― Clark Ashton Smith, The Return of the Sorcerer: The Best of Clark Ashton Smith