The important thing about having lots of things to remember is that you’ve got to go somewhere afterwards where you can remember them, you see? You’ve got to stop. You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

If I had been Terry Pratchett the farmer, or Terry Pratchett the dentist, nobody would have paid any attention if I had announced I had Alzheimer's. But there is something fascinating about an author losing the power over words.

There was no himself in himself.

All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly dressed.

This wasn't food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to food heaven.