She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't.

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

Fresh wounds," said Angua. "But one of them did shoot one of the other in the leg by accident." "I think you'd better put in your report as -self inflicted- wounds while resisting arrest," said Vimes.

You are in favour of the common people?” said Dragon mildly. The common people?” said Vimes. “They’re nothing special. They’re no different from the rich and powerful except they’ve got no money or power. But the law should be there to balance things up a bit. So I suppose I’ve got to be on their side.

You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?

No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.

Chances are where you find them