Moist was sure doctors keep skeletons around to cow patients. Nyer, nyer, we know what you look underneath.

Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remains unmoved. You had to be the centre of the seesaw so the pain flowed through you, not into you. It was very hard. But she could do it!

History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.

A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.

That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!

Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.

You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say.