He's probably their battle poet, too." "You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles?" "No, no. He recites poems that frighten the enemy....When a well-trained gonnagle starts to recite, the enemy's ears explode.

I know it's a very human thing to say 'Is there anything I can do', but in this case I would only entertain offers from very high-end experts in brain chemistry.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes.

I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best.

Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.

Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.