Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.

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

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.

People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense.

Theres no stink more sorrorful than the stink of wet, burnt paper. It means: the end.

Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.

The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one.