And never resist a perfect moment.

It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.

Soon to come in licorice, orange, cinnamon, and banana, but not strawberry, because I hate strawberries.

Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.

The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all.

And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune?" "Can't girls seek their fortune?" "I think they're supposed to seek a boy with a fortune.