A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

It is a mistake trying to cheer up camels. You may as well drop meringues into a black hole.

You can't die with an unfinished book.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should.

I'd go for "really great writer." Although I don't think I am. I know I have a style which is recognizable. I think you can see Terry Pratchett in every book. I like doing it. I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it.

His parents called him Youngster. They did this in the subconcious hope that he might take the hint. Wensleydale gave the impression of having been born with a mental age of 47.