Most modern fantasy just rearranges the furniture in Tolkien's attic.

He's out of his depth on a wet pavement.

Some people think this is paranoia, but it isn't. Paranoids only think everyone is out to get them. Wizards know it.

The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.'

But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?" "Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir.