I think you should be proud of not being worse than just deeply introverted and socially maladjusted.

In defiance of Miss Maccalariat I'd like to commit hanky-panky with you, Miss Adora Belle Dearheart... well, certainly hanky, and possibly panky when we get to know one another better.

The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.

Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.

You see the lighted windows and what you want to think is that there may be many interesting stories behind them, but what you know is that really there are just dull, dull souls, mere consumers of food, who think their instincts are emotions and their tiny lives of more account than a whisper of wind.

I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat... colourful. That's when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up.

As we all know, the Discworld is a flat planet - like a geological pizza, but without the anchovies.