A horse's skull always looks scary, even if someone has put lipstick on it.

Magic is just a way of saying 'I don't know.'

I would advise budding writers some other kind of job, unless they think they're very, very lucky.

There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.

Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!

When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.

It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the the kind of delibrate, annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life.