The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.

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

It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you.

Reality is not digital, an on-off state, but analog. Something gradual. In other words, reality is a quality that things possess in the same way that they possess, say, weight. Some people are more real than others, for example. It has been estimated that there are only about five hundred real people on any given planet, which is why they keep unexpectedly running into one another all the time.

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

The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.

The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.