“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

“The problem with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and putting things in it.”

“Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be an interesting person, would first of all try to find a book called How to Be An Interesting Person and then see whether there were any courses available.”

“Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.”

“Trouble is always easy to find when you have enough people looking for it.”

“That's one form of magic, of course." "What, just knowing things?" "Knowing things that other people don't know.”

“Having to haul around extra poundage was far too much effort, so he saw to it that he never put it on and he kept himself in trim because doing things with decent muscles was far less effort than trying to achieve things with bags of flab.”