You are in favour of the common people?” said Dragon mildly. The common people?” said Vimes. “They’re nothing special. They’re no different from the rich and powerful except they’ve got no money or power. But the law should be there to balance things up a bit. So I suppose I’ve got to be on their side.

I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.

He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.

At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are.

Some People think 'coven' is a word for a group of witches, and it's true that's what the dictionary says. But the real word for a group of witches is 'an argument'.

Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something.

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.