My character - and for that matter my worst habits - could only be described by someone else. You can't open a box with the crowbar inside it.

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.

Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands.

It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.

Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.