I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.

Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.

The worst thing you can do is nothing.

The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.

If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children.

Rincewind gave his fingers a long shocked stare, as one might regard a gun that has been hanging on the wall for decades and has suddenly gone off and perforated the cat.

They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.