Humanity's a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.

The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging in places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you'd started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line.

Stop stealing the funeral meats right now, you wee scuggers!" She shouted. The Feegles stopped and stared at her. Then Rob Anybody said: "Socks wi'oot feets?

He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves.

The Captain of the Watch says if you're still in the City by sunrise he will personally have you buried alive.