On the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease.

I would rather stare at the wall for half an hour than watch an episode of any of the 53,801 Australian soap operas now cluttering up UK TV.

Now he knew: They were real. Who’d make up a thing like this? Okay, one of them was a cheese that rolled around of its own accord, but nobody was perfect.

Do you think there’s anything to eat in this forest?” “Yes,” said the wizard bitterly, “us.

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.

Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk [...]