Every procedure for getting a cat to take a pill works fine - once. Like the Borg, they learn.

The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes.

I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.

That's one form of magic, of course." "What, just knowing things?" "Knowing things that other people don't know.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.

I don't hold with paddlin' with the occult," said Granny firmly. "Once you start paddlin' with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you're believing in gods. And then you're in trouble." "But all them things exist," said Nanny Ogg. "That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em.