I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor.

I wouldn't trust you with a bucket of water if my knickers were on fire!

The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’

I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occurred to him.

Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.

Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

Magic is just a way of saying 'I don't know.'