Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed.

I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff.

Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.

We live and learn, or, perhaps more importantly we learn and live.

Just call in at the torturer on your way out. See when he can fit you in.

His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much.

Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.