The elevator shaft was a kind of heat sink. Hot food was cold by the time it arrived. Cold food got colder. No one knew what would happen to ice cream, but it would probably involve some rewriting of...
The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus: In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded.
The R is the wrong way roond and you left the A and a Y out of Anybody,' said Jeannie, because it is a wife's job to stop her husband actually exploding with pride.'Ach, wumman, I didna' ken which way...
The Library didn’t only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane i...
The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.
Somewhere deep inside his mind, somewhere beyond the event horizon of rationality, the sheer pressure of insanity had hammered his madness into something harder than diamond.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
Someone got killed up here.... It was outside. A tall man. He had one leg longer’n the other. And a beard. He was probably a hunter.How’d you know all that?I just trod on ‘im.
Some people say you achieve immortality through your children, said the minstrel.Yeah? said Cohen. Name one of your great-granddads, then.
She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't.
She prowled the city on moonlit nights, and OK, there was the occasional chicken, but she always remembered where she'd been and went round the next day to shove some money under the door. It was hard...
She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did not make a whole lot of sense, because probably AFTER you had walked a mile in thei...
SEE! I HAVE TIME. AT LAST, I HAVE TIMEAlbert backed away nervously.‘And now that you have it, what are you going to do with it?’ he said.Death mounted his horse.I AM GOING TO SPEND IT.
Real magic is the hand around the bandsaw, the thrown spark in the powder keg, the dimension-warp linking you straight into the heart of a star, the flaming sword that burns all the way down to the po...
Possession of the box conferred a kind of power on the wielder--which was that anyone, confronted with the hypnotic glass eye, would submissively obey the most peremptory orders about stance and expre...
Ponder and his fellow students watched Hex carefully.'It can't just, you know, stop,' said Adrian 'Mad Drongo' Tumipseed.'The ants are just standing still,' said Ponder. He sighed. 'All right, put the...
Ponder Stibbons was one of those unfortunate people cursed with the belief that if only he found out enough things about the universe it would all, somehow, make sense.
Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.
People whose wishes get granted often don't turn out to be very nice people.
Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.