Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

Hello, inner child, I'm the inner babysitter!

Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo.

Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job.