A weapon you held and didn't know how to use belonged to your enemy.

Sometimes, the best answer is a more interesting question.

Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course.

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.

What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.

Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something gradual. In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in the same way that they possess, say, weight. Some people are more real than others, for example. It has been estimated that there are only about five hundred real people on any given planet, which is why they keep unexpectedly running into one another all the time.

The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’