I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.

Most gods find it hard to walk and think at the same time.

I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.

Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.

The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.

A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.

I commend my soul to any god that can find it.