This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

The Tezuman priests have a sophisticated calendar and an advanced horology," quoted Rincewind. "Ah," said Eric, "Good." "No," said Rincewind patiently. "It means time measurement." "Oh.

[Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You forced the world to give it to you, no matter the price, and the price is and always will be high... People say you don't find witchcraft; witchcraft finds you. But you've found it, even if at the time you didn't know what it was you were finding, and you grabbed it by its scrawny neck and made it work for you.

Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.

Winners never talk about glorious victories. Thats because they're the ones who see what the battle field looks like afterwards. Its only the losers who have glorious victories.

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.