A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time.

If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.

There are, almost by definition, an unlimited number of Hells - potentially at least a personal one for every living sapient being.

The words are easy - most of them have already been invented.

I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.

You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.

He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.