Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.

What I've always said was, hang in there, let me write what I want to write, and you'll probably like it.

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

I 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?'

And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?

Susan says, don't get afraid, get angry.