Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.

Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.

Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.

People like that don't need a reason apart from "because I can". They have a nightmare and try to make it happen.