And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.

The space between the young reader’s eyeballs and the printed page is a holy place and officialdom should trample all over it at their peril.’

Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.

Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people.

It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.

I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.

This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here.