I was merely endeavoring to indicate that if we do not grab events by the collar they will have us by the throat. -Lord Vetinari

An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.

People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.

I don't regret it, you know. I would do it all again. Children are our hope for the future." THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, said Death. "What does it contain, then?" ME.

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.