The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's books as well. Usually when people have a really big series they franchise it, which I thought is a bit of a no-no, so I thought what I'd do is I'd franchise it to myself.

And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today.

Fresh wounds," said Angua. "But one of them did shoot one of the other in the leg by accident." "I think you'd better put in your report as -self inflicted- wounds while resisting arrest," said Vimes.

I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.

...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.

One person is nothing. Two people are a nation.

Don't do anything I wouldn't do, if you ever find anything I wouldn't do.