The reaper does not listen to the harvest.

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.

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.

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.

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 unavoidable harshness of life surprised none of them, for they were Christians one and all, believing that they inhabited a fallen world, albeit one filled with God's grace.

Problems can be experienced as... a chance for renewal rather than stress.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

A fool has not stuff enough to make a good man.

I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.

You're one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It's a great gift.

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?

The ends do not justify the means

I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.