Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should.
Everyone says it's going to be Snapcase at the palace. He listens to the people.Yeah, right, said Vimes. And I listen to the thunder. But I don't do anything about it.
Escapism isn't good or bad of itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to. I write from experience, since in my case I escaped to the idea that books could be...
Don't try the paranormal until you know what's normal.
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.
Another priest said,Is it true you've said you'll believe in any god whose existence can be proved by logical debate?Yes.Vimes had a feeling about the immediate future and took a few steps away from D...
And, er, these stories about you...Oh, all true. Most of them. A bit of exaggeration, but mostly true.The one about the Citadel in Muntab and the Pash and the fish bone?Oh, yes.But how did you get in...
And so Mort came at last to the river Ankh, greatest of rivers. Even before it entered the city, it was slow and heavy with the silt of the plains, and by the time it got to The Shades even an agnosti...
He only drinks when he gets depressed,' said Carrot. 'Why does he get depressed?' 'Sometimes it's because he hasn't had a drink.
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...
...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...
Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.
It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational - and I'm speaking the written science fiction, not 'Star Trek.' Science fiction writers tend to fill their boo...
You can't be loony and rich. You've got to be eccentric if you're rich.
Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts time and space on quite a grand scale. Well, when the Post Office started accumulating letters, it wa...
Where's the sense in promising to achive the achievable?
When much is taken, something is returned.
We ain’t going to curse anyone, said Granny firmly. It hardly ever works if they don’t know you’ve done it.
WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN?The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said.Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDER...