Every procedure for getting a cat to take a pill works fine - once. Like the Borg, they learn.

They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.

Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant ‘idiot.

Death strode away, stopped, and came back. He pointed a skeletal finger at The Duck Man. WHY, he said, ARE YOU WALKING AROUND WITH THAT DUCK? "What duck?" AH. SORRY.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

Happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.