The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters.

There is always time for another last minute

I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts.

This wasn't food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to food heaven.

Rincewind gave his fingers a long shocked stare, as one might regard a gun that has been hanging on the wall for decades and has suddenly gone off and perforated the cat.

It takes a special kind of person to fight back.

I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such.