What is a gathering without unseemly drunkenness?

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

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

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.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories

Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.

One of the first things that surprised me in a positive, wonderfully positive way, is that this works - patient capital works.

The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.

[Zwarte Piet] is unfortunate, and just like the early American blackface films, if it offends a segment of the population, it shouldn't be shown again.

To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster.