Everything is a test.

Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be.

Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.

A push-and-go wooden duck on wheels can cause quite a lot of damage if wielded with enough force.

I would like to die peacefully with Thomas Tallis on my iPod before the disease takes me over and I hope that will not be for quite some time to come, because if I knew that I could die at any time I wanted, then suddenly every day would be as precious as a million pounds, if I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.

Once you have your character sitting right there in your head, all you really need to do is wind them up, put them down, and simply write down what they do, say, or think.

Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it.