"Right!" "Right!" "You can get there!" "I can get there!" "You're a natural at counting to two!" "I'm a nat'ral at counting to two!" "If you can count to two, you can count to anything!" "If I can count to two, I can count to anything!" "And then the world is your mollusc!" "My mollusc! What's a mollusc?

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt.

Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts.

I would advise budding writers some other kind of job, unless they think they're very, very lucky.