What I've always said was, hang in there, let me write what I want to write, and you'll probably like it.

The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week?

It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.

There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.

There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.

She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.

The significant owl hoots in the night.