“I mean, it's a good job we've got a last desperate million-to-one chance to rely on, or we'd really be in trouble!”

“Last night there seemed to be a chance. Anything was possible last night. That was the trouble with last nights. They were always followed by this mornings.”

“It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.”

“Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.”

“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”

“Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.”

“The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.”