He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

"I'm sorry, I just got carried away," hissed Aziraphale.

Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat and sleep in.

I read the best works of some of the best satirists, and indeed best writers from the beginning of the Victorian era to about the 1960s. If you want to be a blacksmith, you go and watch the blacksmith working, and you work out what the blacksmith does.