The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes.

Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success.

Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.

If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.

I don't hold with paddlin' with the occult," said Granny firmly. "Once you start paddlin' with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you're believing in gods. And then you're in trouble." "But all them things exist," said Nanny Ogg. "That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.

These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very best pastures.