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.

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.

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

Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed.

I am obsessed with good buying books

My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.

No great power is ever satisfied with its sphere of influence. They never are.

Nurture doubt as a creative strategy.

Life is a lemon and I want my money back.

I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned.

I still don't know how to read music.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.