This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here.

Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight.

Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.

All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it was an oncoming train.

Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole.

I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting puzzlement, that you never knew your mother because she ran away before you were born. Distinctly remember writing it down in my diary. Would you like another try?' 'Permission to go and find my mother?'

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.