Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.

If I had been Terry Pratchett the farmer, or Terry Pratchett the dentist, nobody would have paid any attention if I had announced I had Alzheimer's. But there is something fascinating about an author losing the power over words.

He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.

I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It's a speech-to-text program, and there's an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.

Speak softly and employ a huge man with a crowbar.

Tragic heroes always moan when the gods take an interest in them, but it's the people the gods ignore who get the really tough deals

There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.