People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.

There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.

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.

It's a sword. said the Hogfather. They're not meant to be safe.

Om rubed his head. This wasn't god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You forgot that it wasn't a game down there. People died. Bits got chopped off. We're like eagles up here, he thought. Sometimes we show tortoise how to fly. Then we let go.

I’m a witch. It’s what we do. When it’s nobody else’s business, it’s my business.

The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).