Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.

Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.

At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.

The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.

I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I'm angry about bankers. About the government.