If you get the characters right you've done sometimes nearly half the work. I sometimes find I get the characters right then the characters will often help me write the book - not what they look like that's not very important - what people look like is not about their character. You have to describe the shape they leave in the world, how they react to things, what effect they have on people and you do that by telling their story.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions.

WHERE'S MY COW? ARE YOU MY COW?

There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.

What can the harvest hope for...

The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.

The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one.