I would not like it thought that I do not buy my own paperclips, sir. I enjoy owning my own paperclips. It means they are mine.
I often thought that everyone has their, you know, natural age.
I notice you didn't laugh, Mr. Black!''No, Your Majesty. We are forbidden to laugh at the things kings say, sire, because otherwise we would be at it all day.
I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could see them all in Heaven--serried ranks of them as far as the mind can follow and beyond, league after l...
I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax, said Mrs Gogol.That's good, said Granny. I don't want you to hurt me either.
He’d forgotten the ancient wisdom: take care, when you are closely observing, that you are not closely observed.
Hello, little girl, he said, which was only his first big mistake. I'm sure want to know all about hedgehogs, eh?I did this one last year, said Tiffany.The man looked closer, and his grin faded. Oh,...
He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and similar. But he'd also had a nagging suspicion that,...
He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.
He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves.
He shrugged. - They're just people - he said. - They're just doing what people do. Sir.Lord Vetinari gave him a friendly smile.- Of course, of course - he said. - You have to believe that, I appreciat...
He could think in . Such people need watching.Preferably from a safe distance.
Having to haul around extra poundage was far too much effort, so he saw to it that he never put it on and he kept himself in trim because doing things with decent muscles was far less effort than tryi...
Goats did have names for themselves, she well knew: there was 'goat who is my kid,' 'goat who is my mother,' 'goat who is herd leader,' and half a dozen other names not least of which was 'goat who is...
First you get the test, and then afterwards you spend years findin’ out how you passed it.
Everywhere I look, I see something holy.
Everything starts somewhere, although many physicists disagree.
Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it's just another job.
Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be.
Don't you *ever* let go?I haven't yet.Why?I suppose... because in this world, after everyone panics, there's always got to be someone to tip the wee out of the shoe.