These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards away instead of the innocent bystander at whom it was aimed.

If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.

Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

Your whole life passes in front of your eyes before you die. This is called living.

Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason.

It's an old magical principle - it's even filtered down into RPG systems - that magic, while taking a lot of effort, can be 'stored' - in a staff, for example. No doubt a wizard spends a little time each day charging up his staff, although you go blind if you do it too much, of course.

Incidentally, it's best not to argue with the nursing staff. I find the best course of action is to throw some chocolates in one direction and hurry off in the other while their attention is distracted.