That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroom, and then you're so poisoned by quicksilver fumes and half-blind from reading old grimoires that you can't remember what happens next.

I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing.

It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do.

It's not lying when you do it to officers!

No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate.

She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it.