People were people, even if they had four legs and had called themselves names like Dangerous Beans, which is the kind of name you gave yourself if you learned to read before you understood what all the words actually meant.

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

He found that he had this sudden desperate longing for the fuming, smoky streets of Ankh-Morpork, which was always at its best in the spring, when the gummy sheen on the turbid waters of the Ankh River had a special iridescence and the eaves were full of birdsong, or at least birds coughing rhythmically

I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts.

Some of them wanted to sell me snake oil and I'm not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have never found a rusty snake.

Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.

Chain-mail isn't much defence against an arrow. It certainly isn't when the arrow is being aimed between your eyes.