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

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.

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.

Watch carefully the magic that occurswhen you give a person enough comfort to just be themselves.

It is now certain that the public does know. It is not so certain that the public does care.

Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I want the scars of that engagement to be left in the language.

Knowledge and know-how are the real sources of value and riches. You can learn anything you need to learn to achieve any goal you can set for yourself.

Ninety-five percent of all statistics, including this one, are bogus.

History is not life, but since only life makes history, the union of the two is obvious.

When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.

Everybody wants to be a Bond villain. That is the coolest. To be able to portray a Bond villain, that is the feather in any actor's cap.