Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way. It's good for the hygiene of the brain.

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.

All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it was an oncoming train.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That's something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'

Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences.