Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.

Asking someone to repeat a phrase you'd not only heard very clearly but were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II in the lexicon of squabble.

That's one form of magic, of course." "What, just knowing things?" "Knowing things that other people don't know.

There are, almost by definition, an unlimited number of Hells - potentially at least a personal one for every living sapient being.

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.

What was supposed to be so special about a full moon? It was only a big circle of light. And the dark of the moon was only darkness. But halfway between the two, when the moon was between the worlds of light and dark, when even the moon lived on the edge...maybe then a witch could believe in the moon.

My agent pointed out one day that I had been quoted by a columnist in some American newspaper, and he noted with some glee that they simply identified me by name without reminding people who I was, apparently in the clear expectation that their readers would know who I am.