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

Unseen University had never admitted women, muttering something about problems with the plumbing, but the real reason was an unspoken dread that if women were allowed to mess around with magic they would probably be embarrassingly good at it.

I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.

You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.

Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.

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

Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was.