What're quantum mechanics?" "I don't know. People who repair quantums, I suppose.

Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often students, for heaven's sake.

Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong... But it might.

Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.

Learnin’ how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them.

Well, basically there are two sorts of opera," said Nanny, who also had the true witch's ability to be confidently expert on the basis of no experience whatsoever. "There's your heavy opera, where basically people sing foreign and it goes like "Oh oh oh, I am dyin', oh I am dyin', oh oh oh, that's what I'm doin'", and there's your light opera, where they sing in foreign and it basically goes "Beer! Beer! Beer! Beer! I like to drink lots of beer!", although sometimes they drink champagne instead. That's basically all of opera, reely.

The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.