Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging in places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you'd started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line.

There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.

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

I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.

When she spoke again it was in the thin, careful and above all brave voice of someone who has pulled themselves together despite overwhelming odds but might let go again at any moment.

It's not lying when you do it to officers!

Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?"