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.

If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.

They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.

Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.

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