He pushed his glasses up on his nose and gave me a sidelong look, the one that meant he was so sure you were wrong that he could just wait and let you find out for yourself the hard way.

I’d much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something

Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down.

How can you know it's the best, if you don't learn about anything else?

In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.

May you and your triple cursed wash water turn purple with orange spots and fall down a bottomless pit!

Always be polite to a dragon. It's harder than it sounds. Dragon etiquette is incredibly complicated, and if you make a mistake, the dragon eats you.

Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.

Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory

Every society has the criminals that it deserves.

Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night

It's the mortal cup Jace, not the mortal toilet bowl.

For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.

Every bees hony is sweet.

I said, we should allow no Syrian refugees into the country, not even women or children.

Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them.

Long-term travel doesn't require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.

As soon as I know how to do something, I usually get bored with it.

A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.