You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.

There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject.

A Dream is where a boy can swim in the deepest oceans and fly over the highest clouds.

... there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.

Pagford, which by night was no more than a cluster of twinkling lights in a dark hollow far below, was emerging into chilly sunlight.