You can think and you can fight, but the world's always movin', and if you wanna stay ahead you gotta dance.

One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions.

Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. it meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge.

Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.

What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?

When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't do that.