You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top.

Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.

And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and baa-lambs? He is growing up in the city. He will only see them on a plate! They go sizzle!

Soon to come in licorice, orange, cinnamon, and banana, but not strawberry, because I hate strawberries.

Theres no stink more sorrorful than the stink of wet, burnt paper. It means: the end.

Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult, and I decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces that I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.