Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.

No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?

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

Verence would rather cut his own leg off than put a witch in prison, since it'd save trouble in the long run and probably be less painful.

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the king lounged about doing nothing. If only the pawns would've united ... the whole board could've been a republic in about a dozen moves.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.