People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.

The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’

You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home.

The harder I work, the luckier I become.

But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever - provided, naturally, that you don't go and look. This is known as finance.

Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.

He talks pretty big for a gutter wizard," he muttered. "You don't understand at all," said the wizard wearily. "I'm so scared of you my spine has turned to jelly, it's just that I'm suffering from an overdose of terror right now. I mean, when I've got over that then I'll have time to be decently frightened of you.