STARS EXPLODE, WORLDS COLLIDE, THERE'S HARDLY ANYWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE WHERE HUMANS CAN LIVE WITHOUT BEING FROZEN OR FRIED, AND YET YOU BELIEVE THAT A... A BED IS A NORMAL THING. IT IS THE MOST AMAZIN...
Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.
Rain don’t fall on a witch if she doesn’t want it to, although personally I prefer to get wet and be thankful. Thankful for what? said Tiffany. That I’ll get dry later.
Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.
Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.
People who say things like ‘may all your dreams come true’ should try living in one for five minutes.
People were strange like that. Steal five dollars and you were a petty thief. Steal thousands of dollars and you were either a government or a hero.
People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all t...
People lived, and died, and were remembered. It happened in the same way that winter follows summer. It was not a wrong thing. There were tears, of course, but they were for those who were left; those...
Only Ron's dog was watching William. He considered that it had, for a dog, a very offensive and knowing look.A couple of months ago someaone had tried to hand William the old story about there being a...
One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human.
Omens were all very well, but sometimes it would help if people just wrote things down.
Oh, well...up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way.
Oh, no, said the Lecturer in Recent Runes, pushing his chair back. Not that. That's meddling with things you don't understand.Well, we are wizards, said Ridcully. We're supposed to meddle in things we...
Of all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit.
Now , snapped the Dean, we've searched for a decent library on this island. There simply isn't one! It's ridiculous. How is anyone supposed to get anything done?
No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seeme...
Night, forever. But within it, a city, shadowy and only real in certain ways. The entity cowered in its alley, where the mist was rising. This could not have happened!Yet it had. The streets had fille...
Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.
My first novel was published by the first publisher I sent it to. And so I’ve been learning as I go, and I find it now rather embarrassing that people beginning the Discworld series start with The Col...