The people of Ankh-Morpork had a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to entertainment, and while they were looking forward to seeing a dragon slain, they'd be happy to settle instead for seeing someone being baked alive in his own armour. You didn't get the chance every day to see someone baked alive in their own armour. It would be something for the children to remember.

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

Dark Fantasy is just another way of saying Horror.

Classically, very few people have considered that cleanliness is next to godliness. A rank loincloth and hair in an advanced state of matted entanglement have generally been the badges of office of prophets whose injunction to disdain earthly things starts with soap.

There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime.

Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.