“What we eventually run up against are the forces of humourlessness, and let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.”

“The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don't even know what the word means.”

“This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we — we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.”

“If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.”

“I don't understand you. You don't understand me. What else do we have in common?”

“Trust. That was what this was all about. If you can't trust the one you love, you don't have anything.”

“Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.”

“Don't stop doing what you love.
Don't let your future be ruined by a bunch of loony sand monkeys.”

“"Is," "is." "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.”

“People, particularly over-moralistic Americans, have often seen me as a pessimist and humourless to boot, yet I think I have an almost maniacal sense of humour. The problem is that it's rather deadpan.”