Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"?…

- Jonathan Stroud

Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.

- Jonathan Stroud

Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.

- Jonathan Stroud

According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, compo…

- Jonathan Stroud

Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit.

- Jonathan Stroud

What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation?

- Jonathan Stroud

He was a worried man (I'm stretching the term a bit here, I know. By now, in his mid to late teens, he might just about have passed for a man. When s…

- Jonathan Stroud

One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.

- Jonathan Stroud

As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless s…

- Jonathan Stroud