If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.

You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.

Ye ken, we've been robbin' and running aroound on all kinds o' worlds for a lang time, and I'll tell ye this: The universe is a lot more comp-li-cated than it looks from the ooutside.

The thing about stories is you have to pick the ones that last.

Mort was hurt by this. It was one thing not to want to marry someone, but quite another to be told they didn't want to marry you.

A Duke couldn't have the arse hanging out of his trousers when meeting foreign diplomats. Actually even plain old Sam Vimes never had the arse hanging out of his trousers, either, but no one would have actually started a war if he had.

There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise.