Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.

Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.

The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood - a material that couldn't have been widely available in Palestine.

The fastest way to travel is to be there already.

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

I think it's IMPOSSIBLE for anyone famous to come from here, because everyone around here is insane.

Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass.