Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.
Terry PratchettAll the higher life forms scythed away, just like that. [ . . . ] Nothing but dust and fundamentalists.
Terry PratchettA lot hinges on the fact that, in most circumstances, people are not allowed to hit you with a mallet. They put up all kinds of visible and invisible signs that say, 'Do not do this' in the hope that it'll work, but if it doesn't, then they shrug, because there is, really, no real mallet at all.
Terry Pratchett