I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

Oh dear me, the Booker people don't like me. I don't care. I have been given an award for being taken not seriously, and I am very, very pleased about that.

... the food was good solid stuff for a cold morning, all calories and fat and protein and maybe a vitamin crying softly because it was all alone.

This book was written using 100% recycled words.

A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they had got so good at it.

Fate can be one mean god at times.