Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.

The diplomatic thing for me to say is that if publishers are dressing up other authors as Terry Pratchett clones then they are doing a disservice to those authors. If they didn't dress them as clones but did something different, then those authors could be pioneering in a different sense.

Albert grunted. "Do you know what happens to lads who ask too many questions?" Mort thought for a moment. "No," he said eventually, "what?" There was silence. Then Albert straightened up and said, "Damned if I know. Probably they get answers, and serve 'em right.

In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.

The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.

And the new day was a great big fish.