It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.
Terry PratchettA world like that, which exists only because the gods enjoy a joke, must be a place where magic can survive. And sex too, of course.
Terry PratchettThe diplomatic thing for me to say is that if publishers are dressing up other authors as Terry Pratchett clones then they are doing a disservice to those authors. If they didn't dress them as clones but did something different, then those authors could be pioneering in a different sense.
Terry PratchettJuliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.
Terry PratchettWho knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast.
Terry Pratchett