Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job.

They say that there can never be two snowflakes that are exactly alike, but has anyone checked lately?

The purpose of this lectchoor is to let you know where we are. We are in the deep cack. It couldn't be worse if it was raining arseholes. Any questions?

Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape was horribly precipitous. Quaint, when used to describe the occasional village through which they passed, meant fever-ridden and tumbledown. Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, mean 'idiot'.

The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

...it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.