Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong.

This was the definition of eternity; it was the space of time devised by the Great God Om to ensure that everyone got the punishment that was due to them.

You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top.

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot him and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland?

A good banana daiquiri is hard to come by. I've only ever found one place in this country that makes a proper one, and that's in Leeds.

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.