Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit down for it, but even sitting down, you had to stand out.

'Don't think of it as dying,' said Death. 'Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush.'

You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.

Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'.

Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.

The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.

It's a god-eat-god world.