I think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there are more than 30 books in the Discworld series, it is the four that were written for children which have won the awards. I've never been quite certain why this is.

I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of berry juice in it. Told him I'd bought it from the dwarves. That's the biggest part of doct'rin, really. Most people'll get over most things if they put their minds to it, you just have to give them an interest.

All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.

Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.