When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.
Terry PratchettYou can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
Terry PratchettApes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.
Terry PratchettI would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting puzzlement, that you never knew your mother because she ran away before you were born. Distinctly remember writing it down in my diary. Would you like another try?' 'Permission to go and find my mother?'
Terry Pratchett