I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.

In her own special category, she was quite beautiful. This was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who had ever thought he was worth smiling at.

Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.

He’sh mad?’ ‘Sort of mad. But mad with lots of money.’ ‘Ah, then he can’t be mad. I’ve been around; if a man hash lotsh of money he’sh just ecshentric.

The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.

Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it.

Students, eh? Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't hit them with a shovel!