These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had given their lives for literature after a happy existence in the very best pastures.
Terry PratchettLook, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.
Terry PratchettThat was the very centre of his genius - he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men.
Terry PratchettOne day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.
Terry Pratchett