The dwarfs can turn lead into gold... It reached the pointy ears of the dwarfs. -Can we? -Damned if I know. I can't. -Yeah, but if you could, you wouldn't say. I wouldn't say, if I could. -Can you? -No! -Ah-ha!

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

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

And the new day was a great big fish.

You're allowed to grant people into the darkness, but you must allow them to come out again.

Her singing always cheered him up. Life seemed so much brighter when she stopped.

I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting puzzlement, that you never knew your mother because she ran away before you were born. Distinctly remember writing it down in my diary. Would you like another try?' 'Permission to go and find my mother?'