I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

You know, I sometimes think we Sort too soon.

Her round, mascara-streaked face looked back at him out of the rear window. He forced a grin and a wave before lighting another cigarette, and reflecting that Lucy's idea of sympathty compared unfavourably with some of the interrogation techniques they had used at Guantanamo.

Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's places. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment.

Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.

On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon.