Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?"

Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.

Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.

It was sad, like those businessmen who came to work in serious clothes but wore colorful ties in a mad, desperate attempt to show there was a free spirit in there somewhere.

Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn't the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn't have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I'd got now for an 'adult' DW.