And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune?" "Can't girls seek their fortune?" "I think they're supposed to seek a boy with a fortune.

Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it." "No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.

All the higher life forms scythed away, just like that. [ . . . ] Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.

Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'.

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the edge of space that smoke means progress or, at least, people setting fire to things.

It's not morbid to talk about death. Most people don't worry about death, they worry about a bad death.