Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging in places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you'd started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line.

If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

Who shall I shoot? You choose. Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee? You've got coffee, haven't you? C'mon, everyone's got coffee! Spill the beans!

Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves.