Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-' The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective is a lie. If I know a pond is round then why should I draw it oval? I will draw it round because round is true. Why should my brush lie to you just because my eye lies to me?

Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

I’m a witch. It’s what we do. When it’s nobody else’s business, it’s my business.

No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.

Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.