Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't.
Terry PratchettIf there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
Terry PratchettNext comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top.")
Terry Pratchett