It was the way he wore the place. You expected him any moment to break into the kind of song that has suspicious rhymes and phrases like my kind of town and I wanna be a part of it in it; the kind of...
It was quite impossible to describe.Here is what it looked like.It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and it felt Paisley. It smelled like the total...
It struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was always in the kitchen.
It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the kind of deliberate annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear tha...
Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-'The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective is a lie. If I know a pond is round then why should...
Individuals aren't naturally paid-up members of the human race, except biologically. They need to be bounced around by the Brownian motion of society, which is a mechanism by which human beings consta...
In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.
If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
If the abnormal goes on long enough it becomes the normal.
If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.
If I were you, I'd sue my face for slander.
I'm trying to remember how you tell the time by looking at the sun. -I should leave it for a while, it's too bright to see the numbers at the moment.
I thought dwarfs gold, said Angua.They just say that to get it into bed.
Hrun the Barbarian, who was practilly an academic by Hub standards in that he could think without moving his lips.
He wanted to say: how could you be so nice and yet so dumb? The best thing you could do with the peasents was to leave them alone. Let them get on with it. When people who can read and write start fig...
For a witch stands on the very edge of everything, between the light and the dark, between life and death, making choices, making decisions so that others may pretend no decisions have even been neede...
Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight.
Do you know how wizards like to be buried?Yes!Well, how?Granny Weatherwax paused at the bottom of the stairs.Reluctantly.
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...