The price for being the best is always... having to be the best.
The phrase 'Someone ought to do something' was not, by itself, a helpful one. People who used it added the rider 'and that someone is me'.
The past needs to be remembered. If you do not know where you come from, then you don’t know where you are, and if you don’t know where you are, then you don’t know where you’re going.
The only way to get something to turn up when you need it is to need it to turn up.
The moments that change your life are the ones that happen suddenly, like the one where you die.
The last thing she wanted was to see her friend getting ideas in her head. There was such a lot of room in there for them to bounce around and do damage.
The landscape was snow and green ice on broken mountains. These weren't old mountains, worn down by time and weather and full of gentle ski slopes, but young, sulky, adolescent mountains. They held se...
The forest of Skund was indeed enchanted, which was nothing unusual on the Disc, and was also the only forest in the whole universe to be called -- in the local language -- Your Finger You Fool, which...
The fastest way to travel is to be there already.
The elevator shaft was a kind of heat sink. Hot food was cold by the time it arrived. Cold food got colder. No one knew what would happen to ice cream, but it would probably involve some rewriting of...
The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus: In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded.
The Universe is a lot more complicated than it looks from the outside.
The Ramkins were more highly bred than a hilltop bakery, whereas Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving.
The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.
The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame.
Teatime put a comforting arm around his shoulders. Don't worry, he said. I'm on your side. A violent death is the last thing that'll happen to you.
Supposing there was justice for all, after all? For every unheeded beggar, every harsh word, every neglected duty, every slight... every choice... Because that was the point, wasn't it? You had to cho...
Stories are a parasitical life form, warping lives in the service only of the story itself.
Somewhere deep inside his mind, somewhere beyond the event horizon of rationality, the sheer pressure of insanity had hammered his madness into something harder than diamond.
Sometimes the crime follows the punishment, which only serves to prove the foresight of the Great God.That's what my grandmother used to say, said Brutha automatically.Indeed? I would like to know mor...