I don't think a baker reads an awful lot about bread.

There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime.

You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.

but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?

I mistrust the term graphic novel because it sounds like a good thing to put on a tee-shirt. That's why the French like them.

The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs that were too fiddly for the boys.

Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was not round and shiny — but even its worst enemies would agree that if you had to liken Ankh-Morpork to anything, then it might as well be a piece of rubbish covered with the diseased secretions of a dying mollusc.