There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

Just to keep bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.

Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise.

William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.

People don't like to say comic so they say Graphic Novel, despite the fact that I don't think the true Graphic Novel has been written anywhere.

Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...]

Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy.