Mr Tulip raised a trembling hand. 'Is this the bit where my whole life passes in front of my eyes?' he said.NO, THAT WAS THE BIT JUST NOW.'Which bit?'THE BIT, said Death, BETWEEN YOUR BEING BORN AND Y...
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which be...
Most people, on waking up, accelerate through a quick panicky pre-consciousness check-up: who am I, where am I, who is he/she, good god, why am I cuddling a policeman's helmet, what happened last nigh...
Mort was hurt by this. It was one thing not to want to marry someone, but quite another to be told they didn't want to marry you.
Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind.
Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something that was broken.
Magrat had used a lot of powder to make her face pale and interesting. It combined with the lavishly applied mascara to give the guard the impression that he was looking at two flies that had crashed...
Lu-Tze had long considered that everything happens for a reason, except possibly football.
Look, how about this? Let's pretend we've had the row and I've won. See? It saves a lot of effort.
Legends don't have to make sense. They just have to be beautiful. Or at least interesting.
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's a strange thing about determined seekers-after-wisdom that, no matter where they happen to be, they'll always seek that wisdom which is a long way off. Wisdom is one of the few things that looks...
It was so loud and so deep, it wasn't really sound at all, just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it.
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...
It as true that normal people couldn't hear Gaspode speak, because dogs don't speak. It's a well know fact....Besides, almost all dogs don't talk. Ones that do are merely a statistical error, and can...
Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out, said the shopkeeper. That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.
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 …
If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.