Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.

The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.

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

When all else failed, she tried being reasonable.

The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have been widely available in Palestine.

I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.

And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.