The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame.

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture.

Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.

It takes forty men with their feet on the ground to keep one man with his head in the air.

William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir." Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.

Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.