He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind him and shouting at him.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

The reaper does not listen to the harvest.

He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were brainless.

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.

Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

YOU FEAR TO DIE?"It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break...

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...

WHAT FOR IS THIS BOX PADDED? IS IT TO BE SAT ON? CAN IT BE THAT IT IS CAT-FLAVOURED?

The Only God 'up there' is Unity of Everything, in Quintessence. Other fancies, gods and fairies are the nansy-pansies of simpletons, or is just plain-simple nonsense.

I think sometimes I get overly excited about adding things and having new ideas. You forget that more isn't always better.

Food is about being happy - at a table, thats probably where we spend most of our happiest hours.

One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

You notice. And noticing, you live.

The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

In terms of my career and stuff, Game of Thrones has just been such a blessing because people really love the show.

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.