You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all.

The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well.

The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week?

Hat = wizard, wizard = hat. Everything else is frippery.

You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.

And the new day was a great big fish.

Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant ‘idiot.