My name is immaterial,' she said. That's a pretty name,' said Rincewind.

The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.

I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.

Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.

You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.

A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him? I make no suggestion that one side or other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.

The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.