Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man.WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT DUCK?What duck?AH. SORRY.
Corporal Nobbs, he rasped, why are you kicking people when they’re down? Safest way, sir, said Nobby. Nobby had long ago been told about fighting fair and not striking a fallen opponent, and had then...
Contrary to popular belief, fantasy is not about making things up. The world is stuffed full of things. It is almost impossible to invent any more. No, the role of fantasy as defined by G. K. Chestert...
Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.
Cats are like witches. They don’t fight to kill, but to win. There is a difference. There’s no point in killing an opponent. That way, they won’t know they’ve lost, and to be a real winner you have to...
Carrot started to clap.It wasn't the clap used by middlings to encourage underlings to applaud overlings. It had genuine enthusiasm behind it which was, somehow, worse.
Can I ask a question, sir? said Maurice, as Death turned to go.You May Not Get An Answer.I suppose there isn't a Big Cat in the Sky, is there?I'm Surprised At You, Maurice. Of Course There Are No Cat...
But then science is nothing but a series of questions that lead to more questions.
But I don't in reincarnation! he protested.SQUEAK.And this, Mr Pounder understood with absolute rodent clarity, meant: reincarnation believes in .
Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.
BE HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU’VE GOT, IS THAT THE IDEA?That’s about the size of it, master. A good god line, that. Don’t give ’em too much and tell ’em to be happy with it. Jam tomorrow, see.THIS IS WRONG. D...
Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.
As the message drained away Vimes stared at the opposite wall, in which the door now opened, after a cursory knock, to reveal the steward bearing that which is guaranteed to frighten away all nightmar...
Are we entirely ready, sir? said Lieutenant Hornett, with the special inflection that means We are not entirely ready, sir.We had better be. Glory awaits, gentlemen. In the words of General Tacticus,...
Anything could make Wentworth sticky. Washed and dried and left in the middle of a clean floor for five minutes, Wentworth would be sticky. It didn't seem to come from anywhere. He just got sticky.
Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.
And then you rushed off afterward because of that business with the barber in Gleam Street. Sweeney Jones, said Vimes. Well, he was killing people, Sybil. The best you could say is that he didn’t mean...
And the nice thing about a stake through the heart was that it also worked on non-vampires.
And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.'Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?'Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies... it’s just a word.
And I went on reading; and, since if you read enough books you overflow, I eventually became a writer.