THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US.

And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today.

The diplomatic thing for me to say is that if publishers are dressing up other authors as Terry Pratchett clones then they are doing a disservice to those authors. If they didn't dress them as clones but did something different, then those authors could be pioneering in a different sense.

...William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant.' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to say 'no offense meant' than actually to refrain from giving offense.

You are very clever," said the old man shyly. "I would like to eat your brains, one day.

A push-and-go wooden duck on wheels can cause quite a lot of damage if wielded with enough force.

[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.