Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.

But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.

...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.

Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.

He’s bound to have done something,” Nobby repeated. In this he was echoing the Patrician’s view of crime and punishment. If there was a crime, there should be punishment. If the specific criminal should be involved in the punishment process then this was a happy accident, but if not then any criminal would do, and since everyone was undoubtedly guilty of something, the net result was that, in general terms, justice was done.

I’m a witch. It’s what we do. When it’s nobody else’s business, it’s my business.

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.