There are plenty of people who believe that Elvis is alive, or that aliens occasionally land here to do highly personal things to people, or that the whole idea of evolution is a conspiracy of godless scientists. Almost all of these people can vote and some of them have got guns.

The diplomatic thing for me to say is that if publishers are dressing up other authors as Terry Pratchett clones then they are doing a disservice to those authors. If they didn't dress them as clones but did something different, then those authors could be pioneering in a different sense.

She was not, herself, hugely in favour of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult. Even cats managed it. But women acted as if they'd been given a medal that entitled them to boss people around. It was as if, just because they'd got the label which said "mother," everyone else got a tiny part of the label that said "child".

Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.

Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association.

Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way. It's good for the hygiene of the brain.

Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.