People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.

Carpe Jugulum," read Agnes aloud. "That's... well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means-" "Go for the throat

For example, the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that and the easy way is that the hard way works.

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.

Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid.

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.