'Don't think of it as dying,' said Death. 'Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush.'

Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.

A push-and-go wooden duck on wheels can cause quite a lot of damage if wielded with enough force.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?

No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.

When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry.