It is now known to science that there are many more dimensions than the classical four. Scientists say that these don’t normally impinge on the world because the extra dimensions are very small and cu...
I don’t know what to do, he said. No harm in that. I’ve never known what to do, said Rincewind with hollow cheerfulness. Been completely at a loss my whole life. He hesitated. I think it’s called bein...
Hrun the Barbarian, who was practilly an academic by Hub standards in that he could think without moving his lips.
Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.
Do you know how wizards like to be buried?Yes!Well, how?Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs.Reluctantly.
Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was.Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.
But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.
And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to...
Aargh! I’m too short for this shit!
Er, excuse me,' said the man as Nanny Ogg turned away, 'but what is that on your shoulders?''It's. . . a fur collar,' said Nanny.'Excuse me, but I just saw it flick its tail.''Yes. I happen to believe...
The sun set, which is everyday magic...
Drought-struck farmers pray for rain, in the express hope that the universe or owner thereof will hear the words and suspense the laws of meteorology for their benefit. Some, of course, actually belie...
...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was...
I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.
You know zat another term for an iconographer would be ‘photographer’? From the old word ‘photus’ in Latation, vhich means—‘To prance around like an idiot ordering everyone about as if you owned the p...
You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you ga...
Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them.
Tiffany got up early and lit the fires. When her mother came down, she was scrubbing the kitchen floor, very hard.Er…aren’t you supposed to do that sort of thing by magic, dear? said her mother, who’d...
There were only three times in your life when it was proper to come through the front door, and you were carried every time.
There are eight levels of wizardry on the Disc; after sixteen years Rincewind has failed to achieve even level one. In fact it is considered opinion of some of his tutors that he is incapable even of...