Thats how we survive infinity - we kill it by breaking it up into small bits.

I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago "Would you be happy in a world where medical care is widely available, houses are clean, the world's music and sights and foods can be brought into your home at small cost, traveling even 100 miles is easy, childbirth is generally not fatal to mother or child, you don't have to die of dental abscesses and you don't have to do what the squire tells you" they'd think you were talking about the New Jerusalem and say "yes."

When millions of tons of angry elephant come spinning through the sky, and there was no one there to hear it, does it - philosopically speaking - make a noise

I never said nothing..." "I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!

I don’t see why it matters what is written. Not when it’s about people. It can always be crossed out.

Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.