Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.

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

There's no point in killing an opponent... There's no triumph over a corpse, but a beaten opponent, who will remain beaten every day of the remainder of their sad and wretched life, is something to treasure.

I think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there are more than 30 books in the Discworld series, it is the four that were written for children which have won the awards. I've never been quite certain why this is.

Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.

Banana daiquiris aren't knock-'em-back-by-the-flagon.

Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.