I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.

Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.

What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?

I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in it. Told him I'd bought it from the dwarves. That's the biggest part of doct'rin, really. Most people'll get over most things if they put their minds to it, you just have to give them an interest.

His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.

Now he knew: They were real. Who’d make up a thing like this? Okay, one of them was a cheese that rolled around of its own accord, but nobody was perfect.