We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.

I once absent-mindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.

Magrat had used a lot of powder to make her face pale and interesting. It combined with the lavishly applied mascara to give the guard the impression that he was looking at two flies that had crashed into a sugar bowl.

After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang. That would just be noise, and all that noise could create is more noise and a cosmos full of random particles. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.