Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'.

It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you.

Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'.

Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?

Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.

The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot is. You can't take character and plot apart from each other, really.

Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.