...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe.

If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.

You get a wonderful view from the point of no return.

It's a sword. said the Hogfather. They're not meant to be safe.

A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.

I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.

And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible.