Fresh wounds," said Angua. "But one of them did shoot one of the other in the leg by accident." "I think you'd better put in your report as -self inflicted- wounds while resisting arrest," said Vimes.

People don't like to say Fantasy they say Magic Realism which means Fantasy written by somebody I went to university with.

The singers all loathe the sight of one another, the chorus despises the singers, they both hate the orchestra, and everyone fears the conductor; the staff on one prompt side won't talk to the staff on the opposite prompt side, the dancers are all crazed from hunger in any case.

Every procedure for getting a cat to take a pill works fine - once. Like the Borg, they learn.

It’s quite easy to accidentally overhear people talking downstairs if you hold an upturned glass to the floorboards and accidentally put your ear to it.

Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.

On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed.