He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania

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

Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them.

IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather. "You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants?" YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF.

The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend years findin' out how you passed it. It's a bit like life in that respect

I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away childish things because. wow, then I could afford much *better* childish things!