Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.

Witches aren’t like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it’s wicked of them to say we don’t. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.

Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.

But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the usual terrible things to him.