I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do.
Terry PratchettThe truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.
Terry PratchettVoodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead.
Terry PratchettIโm not superstitious. Iโm a witch. Witches arenโt superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.
Terry PratchettThe baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?
Terry PratchettUnseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging in places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you'd started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line.
Terry Pratchett