There is always a choice." "You mean I could choose certain death?" "A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.

Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.'

People don't like to say comic so they say Graphic Novel, despite the fact that I don't think the true Graphic Novel has been written anywhere.

Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...]

I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.

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