The oldest fan letter I've had is from someone aged eighty-five.

My name is immaterial,' she said. That's a pretty name,' said Rincewind.

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

That, lad," he said proudly, "was some of the worst poetry I have heard for a long time. It was offensive to the ear and a torrrture to the soul....We'll make a gonnagle out of ye yet!

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.

And he dreamed the dream of all those who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that you would have to employ two people just to hold your trousers up.