And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.

Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else.

The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.

Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it's much too late.

That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.

Genuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with no effort, out of nothing at all.