"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.

But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.

It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.

Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other side then this is a valuable bonus.

Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW.