A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing.

Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

Not for the first time in the history of the universe, someone for whom communication normally came as effortlessly as a dream was stuck for inspiration when faced with a few lines on the back of a card.

The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.

Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.

It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.