Creators aren't gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It's men that make gods. This explains a lot.

One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren't in charge. It had been finding out that governments were not, on the whole, staffed by people who had a grip, and that plans were what people made instead of thinking.

escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.

Even the blind and meek and voiceless have gods.

The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.