That's usually how they start, the young ones. Meaningless waffle.

And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.

Then again, Solomon was human. And that meant he was flawed (Go on, take a look at yourself in the mirror. A good long look, if you can bear it. See? Flawed's putting it mildly, isn't it?)

One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.

That's usuаllу hоw thеу start, thе young оnеs. Meaningless waffle.

The Amulet of Samarkand. It was Simon Lovelace's. Now it is yours. Soon it will be Simon Lovelace's again. Take it and enjoy the consequences.

Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was a very good plan.

That's a gesture of endearment in some cultures. Some hug, some kiss, some set each other on fire in small patches of woodland

When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something.

Haven't you done enough for a lifetime? Think about it - two power - crazed magicians killed, a hundred power - crazed magicians saved.

Burned and squashed to death in a silver vat of soup. There must be worst ways to go. But not many.

We are not here to do what has already been done.

This life of ours can feel an awful lot like waiting.

The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

A saint is a person who does almost everything any other decent person does, only somewhat better and with a totally different motive.

I know who likes football likes me

When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now no more.

Its [Communism's] unfortunate association with violence encourages a certain evil tendency in human beings.

Adversity often activates a strength we did not know we had.

It's very easy to make something that is new. So we are trying to make things that are better.

When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.