It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice.

His movements could be called cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

And he dreamed the dream of all those who publish books, which was to have so much gold in your pockets that you would have to employ two people just to hold your trousers up.

It's a sword. said the Hogfather. They're not meant to be safe.

I don't think a baker reads an awful lot about bread.