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

Peace?' said Vetinari. 'Ah, yes, defined as period of time to allow for preparation for the next war.

Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success.

You're allowed to grant people into the darkness, but you must allow them to come out again.

There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way.

The diplomatic thing for me to say is that if publishers are dressing up other authors as Terry Pratchett clones then they are doing a disservice to those authors. If they didn't dress them as clones but did something different, then those authors could be pioneering in a different sense.

Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.