Everything is a test.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something.

There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way.

There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.

I read the best works of some of the best satirists, and indeed best writers from the beginning of the Victorian era to about the 1960s. If you want to be a blacksmith, you go and watch the blacksmith working, and you work out what the blacksmith does.

His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.