Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.

I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.

He found that he had this sudden desperate longing for the fuming, smoky streets of Ankh-Morpork, which was always at its best in the spring, when the gummy sheen on the turbid waters of the Ankh River had a special iridescence and the eaves were full of birdsong, or at least birds coughing rhythmically

Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them.

Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.

When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.