You couldn't escape the pointy hat, though. There was nothing magical about a pointy hat except that it said that the woman underneath it was a witch. People paid attention to a pointy hat.

I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.

This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.

And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!

A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.

That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone?

Yes, she'd made a mistake... but she wasn't going to be bullied. You couldn't let boys go around raining on your lava and ogling other people's watercolors.

Living this long's not as wonderful as people think. I mean, you get the same amount of youth as everyone else, but a great big extra helping of being very old and deaf and creaky.

Gossiping's part of witchcraft, ' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet.

I'm a man born to blood and pain, and peace would be a killing blow for me.

The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).

Every damsel in distress deserves a hero...

If happiness shouldn't make you so miserable, misery shouldn't make you so happy.

Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.

My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.

Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

The people who imprinted us are not completely happy and they are not completely powerful. So naturally, we have to fight our whole life against that imprinting.

You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.