“Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.”

“Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging in places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you'd started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line.”

“Other people say: hold on, if he's carrying the entire universe in a sack, right, that means he's carrying himself and the sack inside the sack, because the universe contains everything. Including him. And the sack, of course. Which contains him and the sack already. As it were.To which the reply is: well?”

“Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.”

“Talent just defines what you do...It doesn't define what you are. Deep down, I mean. When you know what you are, you can do anything”

“It was so loud and so deep, it wasn't really sound at all, just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it.”

“The year is round! The wheel of the world must spin! That is why up here they dance the Dark Morris, to balance it. They welcome the winter because of the new summer deep inside it!”