I'd like to walk on the moon (and return).

As we all know, the Discworld is a flat planet - like a geological pizza, but without the anchovies.

Cats gravitate to kitchens like rocks gravitate to gravity.

Well, basically there are two sorts of opera," said Nanny, who also had the true witch's ability to be confidently expert on the basis of no experience whatsoever. "There's your heavy opera, where basically people sing foreign and it goes like "Oh oh oh, I am dyin', oh I am dyin', oh oh oh, that's what I'm doin'", and there's your light opera, where they sing in foreign and it basically goes "Beer! Beer! Beer! Beer! I like to drink lots of beer!", although sometimes they drink champagne instead. That's basically all of opera, reely.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all the grace and coordination of a deck-chair.

Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations.