People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.

I thought jet planes were just trucks with more wings and less wheels.

I'd like to sell a lot of books.

The truth isn't easily pinned to a page. In the bathtub of history the truth is harder to hold than the soap and much more difficult to find.

IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather. "You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants?" YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF.

You had to hand it to the Patrician, he admitted grudgingly. If you didn't, he sent men to come and take it away.