You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.

You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you.

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW.

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.

I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.