Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots.

The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.

People's whole lives do pass in front of their eye before they die. The process is called "Living".

I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best.

You know how to pray, don’t you? Just put your hands together and hope.

It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during a thunderstorm, and reigned for one and a half seconds.