No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?

Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point MY POINT EXACTLY.

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.

I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don't know how to do it, and wouldn't be any good at it if I did, so I'm going to employ someone to walk the catwalks on my behalf. It would still be me, of course.

If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

Hat = wizard, wizard = hat. Everything else is frippery.