Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations.

We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience

You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.

You just put that sword away, sir, please," said the voice of Lance-Constable Vimes. "You will not shoot me, you young idiot. That would be murder," said the captain calmly. "Not where I'm aiming, sir.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

Strength enough to build a home, Time enough to hold a child, Love enough to break a heart

But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.