I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in it. Told him I'd bought it from the dwarves. That's the biggest part of doct'rin, really. Most people'll get over most things if they put their minds to it, you just have to give them an interest.

An Assassin, a real Assassin had to look like one-black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?

It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used to, mainly because it's like you are deconstructing it all the time.

Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...]

Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.

We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience

Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it.