Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.

If he'd been a hero, he would have taken the opportunity to say, "That's what I call sorted!" Since he wasn't a hero, he threw up.

All property is theft, except mine.

Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often students, for heaven's sake.

Vimes's lack of interest in other people's children was limitless.

Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.

I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley Full of Clouds." Writing a novel is as if you are going off on a journey across a valley. The valley is full of mist, but you can see the top of a tree here and the top of another tree over there. And with any luck you can see the other side of the valley. But you cannot see down into the mist. Nevertheless, you head for the first tree.