Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.

I was merely endeavoring to indicate that if we do not grab events by the collar they will have us by the throat. -Lord Vetinari

The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.

TV people in the UK... I'm getting on a lot better with them.

And these are your reasons, my lord?" "Do you think I have others?" said Lord Vetinari. "My motives, as ever, are entirely transparent." Hughnon reflected that 'entirely transparent' meant either that you could see right through them or that you couldn't see them at all.

The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.

Everywhere's been where it is ever since it was first put there. It's called geography.