Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

You couldn't say 'I had orders.' You couldn't say 'It's not fair.' No one was listening. There were no Words. You owned yourself. [...] Not 'Thou Shalt Not'. Say 'I Will Not'.

I don't want to hurt you, Mistress Weatherwax," said Mrs Gogol. "That's good," said Granny. "I don't want you to hurt me either.

He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves.

Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.

The conflict is not between Christianity and Islam or between East and West - instead, it is between stupid people and other stupid people.

Be one of the crowd? It went against everything a wizard stood for, and a wizard would not stand for anything if he could sit down for it, but even sitting down, you had to stand out.