Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away.

'Discworld' is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remains unmoved. You had to be the centre of the seesaw so the pain flowed through you, not into you. It was very hard. But she could do it!

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.'

Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them.

Oh, well...up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way.

The people who guard the rainbow don't like those who get in the way of the sun.