Last night there seemed to be a chance. Anything was possible last night. That was the trouble with last nights. They were always followed by this mornings.

[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.

The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

Sometimes, the best answer is a more interesting question.

The city's full of people who you just see around.

Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.