Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving

The only thing more dangerous then a vampire crazed with blood lust was a vampire crazed with anything else. All the meticulous single-mindedness that went into finding young women who slept with their bedroom window open got channeled into some other interest, with merciless and painstaking efficiency.

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.

Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.

The city's full of people who you just see around.

This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can.