Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.

I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest change is that I don't have to spend most of the day printing out and packaging a manuscript. I think I almost miss that.

In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

Experience has taught me that you feel better on a flight if you avoid chicken fat in plastic sauce.

After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang. That would just be noise, and all that noise could create is more noise and a cosmos full of random particles. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

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