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.

Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman.

Learnin’ how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them.

Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

It was Carrot who'd suggested to the Patrician that hardened criminals should be given the chance to 'serve the community' by redecorating the homes of the elderly, lending a new terror to old age and, given Ankh-Morpork's crime rate, leading to at least one old lady having her front room wallpapered so many times in six months that now she could only get in sideways.

He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.