The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.

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

Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.

My agent pointed out one day that I had been quoted by a columnist in some American newspaper, and he noted with some glee that they simply identified me by name without reminding people who I was, apparently in the clear expectation that their readers would know who I am.

Asking someone to repeat a phrase you'd not only heard very clearly but were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II in the lexicon of squabble.

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.