The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.

Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.

The universe was bad enough without people poking it.

It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the the kind of delibrate, annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life.

On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed.

If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.

There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called Witches and Wizards.