Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.

Botswana is also the only country in the world with a colour in its flag meant to represent rain (a sort of blue-grey). Not many people know this.

The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.

But ye gotta know where ye're just gonna rush in. Ye cannae just rush in anywhere. It looks bad, havin' to rush oout again straight awa'.

It was so loud and so deep, it wasn't really sound at all, just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it.

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.

I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.