Learning how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them. Harder, maybe. There'd be a sight more frogs in this world if I didn't know how not to turn people into them. And big pink balloons...
Just because a woman’s got no teeth doesn’t mean she’s wise. It might just mean she’s been stupid for a very long time.
I’ve never had occasion to use one magnificent tip from a well-known author, but I pass it on anyway: Keep an eye on the trade press. When an editor moves on, immediately send your precious MS to his...
I’d just like to say, he said, if we don’t get out of this, that…I’ll have known, deep down inside, that there was a spark of goodness in you. That’s right, said Crowley bitterly. Make my day. Aziraph...
It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.
It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free.
It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.
It might have interested Newt to know that, of the thirty-nine thousand women tested with the pin during the centuries of witch-hunting, twenty-nine thousand said ouch, nine thousand, nine hundred and...
It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers
Is It Frightening To Be Free?You said it.You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?Seems to be a major human activity, yes.
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...
If they look as though they're worried, we'll move in.''And do what exactly?' said Polly.'Threaten to shoot them,' said Maladict firmly.'And if they don't believe us?''Then we'll threaten to shoot the...
I would like you to teach [the orcs] civilised behaviour, said Ladyship coldly.He appeared to consider this. Yes of course, I think that would be quite possible, he said. And who would you send to tea...
I told her we were going to get married, and all she could talk about was frogs.She said there's these hills where it's hot and rains all the time, and in the rainforests there are these very tall tre...
I never said nothing...I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!
I mean, it's one thing saying you've got the best god, but sayin' it's the only real one is a bit of a cheek, in my opinion. I know where I can find at least two any day of the week. And they say ever...
He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.
He was determined to discover the underlying logic behind the universe.Which was going to be hard, because there wasn't one.
Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladder...
Even in a dream, even at a posh ball, the Nac Mac Feegle knew how to behave. You charged in madly, and you screamed... politely. pommes frites