Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber.
Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk.
It was one of the most ancient terrors, the one that meant that no sooner had mankind learned to walk on two legs than it dropped to its knees.
It was destined to be the most impressive kiss in the history of foreplay. The kiss lasted more than fifteen years. Not even frogs can manage that.
It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referr...
It was a little like stealing. It was exactly like stealing. It was, in fact, stealing. But there was no law against it because no one knew the crime existed, so is it really stealing if what’s stolen...
It dawned on him—very slowly, because it was a completely new sensation—that someone in the world was frightened of him. The complete reverse was so often the case that he had come to think of it as a...
In the rain-forests of Brutha’s subconscious the butterfly of doubt emerged and flapped an experimental wing, all unaware of what chaos theory has to say about this sort of thing …
In fact the Guild, he liked to think, practiced the ultimate democracy. You didn't need intelligence, social position, beauty or charm to hire it. You just needed money which, unlike the other stuff,...
If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.
If you take the long view, the universe is just something small and round, like those water filled balls which produce a miniature snowstorm when you shake them. * Although, unless the ineffable plan...
If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.
If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.
If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.
If I'd had to buy you, you wouldn't be worth the price.
I'll never be like this again . . . I'll never again feel as tall as the sky and as old as the hills and as strong as the sea. I've been given something for a while, and the price of it is that I have...
I was merely endeavoring to indicate that if we do not grab events by the collar they will have us by the throat.-Lord Vetinari
I know it’s not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig!My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and ladies merely glow…Is that so? Well, miss, you are gl...
I dinna trust him, said Slightly Mad Angus. He reads books an' such.
I could hear you not saying anything! You’ve got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn’t dead!