Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.

He talks pretty big for a gutter wizard," he muttered. "You don't understand at all," said the wizard wearily. "I'm so scared of you my spine has turned to jelly, it's just that I'm suffering from an overdose of terror right now. I mean, when I've got over that then I'll have time to be decently frightened of you.

People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.

She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and started reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about orgasms, but apart from making a mental note to have one if ever the occasion presented itsel

I think," he said, "I think, if you want thousands, you have to fight for one.

What do you call those things at the bottom of rivers? Frogs? Stones? Unsuccessful gangsters?

A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.