The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

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

This is Morbidia," said Vlad. "Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool.

Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!

They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking after the large vivarium where they happily passed their days was given to first-year students, on the basis that if they got things wrong there wouldn't be too much education wasted.

It must be powerful language if you canna make oout what the heel it’s goin’ on aboot!

In the end the problem isn't that you have the wrong sort of government for the People, but that you have the wrong sort of People.