People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it's usually not their fault they were reduced to getting their education from school.

Vimes had got around to a Clean Desk policy. It was a Clean Floor strategy that eluded him at the moment.

At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are.

Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.

Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

People are often so busy living that they never stop to wonder why.