PRAY TELL ME, WHY WERE YOU CONTENT TO LIVE IN THIS TINY LITTLE COUNTRY WHEN, AS YOU KNOW, YOU COULD HAVE BEEN ANYTHING AND ANYBODY IN THE WORLD? I don’t know about the world, not much; but in my part...
Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.
One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who...
One lifetime isn't enoughOH I DON'T KNOWHmmm?WINDLE POONS?Yes?THAT WAS YOUR LIFEAnd with great relief and general optimism, and a feeling that on the whole everything could have been much worse, Windl...
Omens are everywhere in this world you just have to find the one that fits.
Now, as Crowley would be the first to protest, most demons weren’t deep down evil. In the great cosmic game they felt they occupied the same position as tax inspectors—doing an unpopular job, maybe, b...
Now consider the tortoise and the eagle. The tortoise is a ground-living creature. It is impossible to live nearer the ground without being under it. Its horizons are a few inches away. It has about a...
Nor had he, as far as he knew, ever believed in anything. It had been embarrassing, because he quite wanted to believe in something, since he recognized that belief was the lifebelt that got most peop...
No point in imagining anything, said Granny. Things are bad enough as they are.
Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling 'banana', but didn't know how you stopped.
Mister Rob Anybody and sundry others? said one of the figures in a dreadful voice.There's naebody here o' that name! shouted Rob Anybody. We dinna know anythin'!We have here a list of criminal and civ...
Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.
Look, this is just the cemetery. It's got bylaws and things! It's not Transylvania! There's just dead people here! That doesn't make it scary, does it? Dead people are people who were living once! You...
Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.
Knowledge equals power...The string was important. After a while the Librarian stopped. He concentrated all his powers of librarianship.Power equals energy...People were stupid, sometimes. They though...
Joshua, cynicism is the only reasonable response to the antics of humanity.
It’s hard to be an ornithologist and walk through a wood when all around you the world is shouting: ‘Bugger off, this is my bush! Aargh, the nest thief! Have sex with me, I can make my chest big and r...
It’s amazing how people define roles for themselves and put handcuffs on their experience and are constantly surprised by the things a roulette universe spins at them.
It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain mines.
It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a serva...