Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.

I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.

There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins.

You know, I never imagined there were he-dryads. Not even in an oak tree." One of the giants grinned at him. Druellae snorted. "Stupid! Where do you think acorns come from?

And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and baa-lambs? He is growing up in the city. He will only see them on a plate! They go sizzle!

Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.