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

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.

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...

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?

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

We must complement each other beautifully.

Sport should be in your Blood/Veins, Not in the Joints or Bones

Believing that Sibel was saying these things to me to make me angry, I got angry. But this is not to say that the fury owed nothing to my partial awareness that she was right.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Never lie in bed at night asking yourself questions you can't answer.

If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.

But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision.