Sometimes you can think that 'I've had enough of wizards!' And sometimes fantasy is not just about wizards.

Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.

The nice thing about your police procedural as opposed to your classic murder mystery is that in a murder mystery you don't know who did it. Whereas in a police procedural you know, you know everything often and you're watching the police home in.

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

The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well.

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!

Ach, people are always telling us not to do things" said Rob Anybody, "that's how we ken the most interesting things to do.