But, though French, she was also very brave.

There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.

It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking of their own mortality.

I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.

A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.

All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.

I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.