Granny bit her lip. She was never quite certain about children, thinking of them-when she thought about them at all-as coming somewhere between animals and people. She understood babies. You put milk in one end and kept the other as clean as possible. Adults were even easier, because they did the feeding and cleaning themselves. But in between was a world of experience that she had never really inquired about. As far as she was aware, you just tried to stop them catching anything fatal and hoped that it would all turn out all right.

Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be.

Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.

When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry.

If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.

Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives.