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

Cats don't hunt seals. They would if they knew what they were and where to find them. But they don't, so that's all right.

I’m a witch. It’s what we do. When it’s nobody else’s business, it’s my business.

Bill Door was impressed. Miss Flitworth could actually give the word "revenue", which had two vowels and one diphthong, all the peremptoriness of the word "scum.

The kind of accidents you prefer to call...accidents.

Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.

Chances are where you find them