Silverfish looked down. "Oh. Are you a dwarf?" Cuddy gave him a blank stare. "Are you a giant?" he said. "Me? Of course not!" "Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes."

He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves.

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

...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.

It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air.

The point is that if a book that had been published three years ago started to sell twice as many all of a sudden it probably wouldn't even get no­ticed. People wouldn't be tracking it. The system has cleaned up its act an awful lot but the best-seller list system is not an entirely foolproof thing.