Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.

Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.

No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

And what are you doing on it, I would like to know? Running away from home, yesno? If you were a boy I'd say are you going to seek your fortune?" "Can't girls seek their fortune?" "I think they're supposed to seek a boy with a fortune.

Why not? If enough people believe, you can be god of anything.

She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it.

I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.