Magrat had used a lot of powder to make her face pale and interesting. It combined with the lavishly applied mascara to give the guard the impression that he was looking at two flies that had crashed into a sugar bowl.

I'd like to walk on the moon (and return).

Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.

The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

I taught myself more in the library than school taught me.

No one knew where you were before you were born, but when you were born, it wasn't long before you found you'd arrived with your return ticket already punched.

The point is that if a book that had been published three years ago started to sell twice as many all of a sudden it probably wouldn't even get no­ticed. People wouldn't be tracking it. The system has cleaned up its act an awful lot but the best-seller list system is not an entirely foolproof thing.