It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards through the 'begats' and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, that's a big punishment for eating one lousy apple... There's a human-rights issue.'

It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.

No one thinks that young adults read hooks for YOUNG ADULTS, books for young adults are read by kids.

Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.

What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?

Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.