I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

A lot hinges on the fact that, in most circumstances, people are not allowed to hit you with a mallet. They put up all kinds of visible and invisible signs that say, 'Do not do this' in the hope that it'll work, but if it doesn't, then they shrug, because there is, really, no real mallet at all.

I would advise budding writers some other kind of job, unless they think they're very, very lucky.

You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.

The mountains of madness have many little plateau of sanity.

There are no inconsistencies in the Discworld books; ocassionally, however, there are alternate pasts.

Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.