...'I thought the rule was that all monks were shaved.' 'Oh, Soto says he is bald under the hair,'said Lu Tze. 'He says the hair is a separate creature that just happens to live on him.

...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.

The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.

Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course.

Man just went past with a cat on his head.

Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid.

I can't stand any music that requires its singers to be so dumb they wear their baseball caps backwards.