And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.

The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.

It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air.

Lots of ingenuity gets you through times with no money better than money gets you through times of no ingenuity.

They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings. It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then one day the tribe meets some other People or, if it's not been a good day, The Enemy. If only they'd think up a name like Some More True Human Beings, it'd save a lot of trouble later on

The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

The trouble with life was that you didn’t get a chance to practice before doing it for real.