I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.

When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.

As far as Death was aware, the sole reason for any human association with pigs and lambs was as a prelude to chops and sausages. Quite why they should dress up for children’s wallpaper as well was a mystery. Hello, little folk, this is what you’re going to eat… He felt that if only he could find the key to it, he’d know a lot more about human beings.

Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then invents DNA or the flute sonata form or a way of making light bulbs wear out in half the time. But most of them miss. Most people go through their lives without being hit by even one.

You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.

Someone got killed up here.... It was outside. A tall man. He had one leg longer’n the other. And a beard. He was probably a hunter." "How’d you know all that?" "I just trod on ‘im.

Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.