The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.

I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?

Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.

But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.

Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.

I [...] vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. I would live my life as ever to the full and die, ­before the disease mounted its last ­attack, in my own home, in a chair on the lawn, with a brandy in my hand to wash down whatever modern ­version of the "Brompton cocktail" some ­helpful medic could supply. And with ­Thomas Tallis on my iPod, I would shake hands with Death.