Soon to come in licorice, orange, cinnamon, and banana, but not strawberry, because I hate strawberries.

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

...William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to say 'no offense meant' than actually to refrain from giving offense.

I'm not the world's greatest expert, but I would have thought that the wizards, witches, trolls, unicorns, ... broomsticks and spells would have given her a clue?' - when J.K. Rowling insisted she wasn't writing fantasy.

Humans can think inhuman thoughts.

A police procedural novel can be even funnier if the police include Trolls and Dwarves and things like that. You start looking at the whole basis of the cop novel. You get the cop moving in a different way when you've actually set it in a fantasy city.

Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top.")