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 brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half.

There's some things that you wouldn't tackle in a children's book because it would be beyond, not the mental capabilities, but the experience of someone under the age of say ten or eleven to encompass. But that field is smaller than you might think. They can easily cope with death and things like that; they know about it and it's a subject that often preoccupies them.

All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private.

I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occurred to him.

The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people.

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.