People aren't just people, they are people surrounded by circumstances.

Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead.

That was always the dream, wasn't it? 'I wish I'd known then what I know now'? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn't YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp.

Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.

Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenerey that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape was horribly precipitous. Quaint, when used to describe the occasional village through which they passed, meant fever-ridden and tumbledown. Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, mean 'idiot'.

We are monkeys. We like to chatter. Chattering doesn't cost us anything.

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