If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children.

And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.

You were the kind of kid who couldn't see the difference between throwing rocks at a cat and setting it on fire.

Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.

If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.