Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.
It was impossible for him to get bored. He just didn't have the imagination.
It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating the homes of the elderly, lending a new terror to old age and...
In fact he was incurably insane and hallucinated more or less continuously, but by a remarkable stroke of lateral thinking his fellow wizards had reasoned that, in that case, the whole business could...
I wonder if it's like this for mountain climbers, he thought. You climb bigger and bigger mountains and you know that one day one of them is going to be just that bit too steep. But you go on doing it...
I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.
I just think the world ought to be more sort of organized.''That's just fantasy,' said Twoflower.'I know. That's the trouble.' Rincewind sighed again.
I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.
HO. HO. HO.
Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them.
As for me, some days I believe in God, and some days I do not.Then Dodger said, Is that allowed?Solomon pushed the door open and then fussily began locking it up again behind him. Dodger, you fail to...
Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium.
A metaphor is a kind o' lie to help people understand what's true.
Lord Vetinari considered the sentence, and found it good. He liked 'tincture' particularly. Tincture. Tincture. It was a distinguished word, and pleasantly countered by the flatness of 'soup'. Yes. In...
Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summar...
Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.
This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.
In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature s...