Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead

People don't like to say Horror so they say Dark Fantasy because that's Horror wearing a collar and tie.

A witch who is bored might do ANYTHING. People said things like 'we had to make our own amusements in those days' as if this signified some kind of moral worth, and perhaps it did, but the last thing you wanted a witch to do was get bored and start making her own amusements, because witches sometimes had famously erratic ideas about what was amusing.

Occasionally he would very nearly swear.

If you really want to upset a witch, do her a favor which she has no means of repaying. The unfulfilled obligation will nag at her like a hangnail.

Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and policemen to chase anything that runs away.

Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.