Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.

He's probably their battle poet, too." "You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles?" "No, no. He recites poems that frighten the enemy....When a well-trained gonnagle starts to recite, the enemy's ears explode.

Susan says, don't get afraid, get angry.

She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.

Winners never talk about glorious victories. Thats because they're the ones who see what the battle field looks like afterwards. Its only the losers who have glorious victories.

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.