A horse's skull always looks scary, even if someone has put lipstick on it.

Shoes, men, coffins; never accept the first one you see.

I read the best works of some of the best satirists, and indeed best writers from the beginning of the Victorian era to about the 1960s. If you want to be a blacksmith, you go and watch the blacksmith working, and you work out what the blacksmith does.

No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?

The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one.

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

I'm interested in mythology generally, but India has no special place in my heart - although Hindu gods seem a lot more fun.