Funny, reely," he said. "You spend your whole life goin' to school and learnin' stuff, and they never tell you about stuff like the Bermuda Triangle and UFOs and all these Old Masters running around the inside of the Earth. Why do we have to learn boring stuff when there's all this brilliant stuff we could be learnin', that's what I want to know.

Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.

Never cross a woman with a star on a stick, young lady. They've got a mean streak.

Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.

Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association.

-Oh yes? Can you identify yourself? -Certainly. I'd know me anywhere.