It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Ultimately, there is the freedom to take the consequences.

You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?

They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.

Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.

The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.