And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and baa-lambs? He is growing up in the city. He will only see them on a plate! They go sizzle!

Aliens don't get stuck in air ducts. It's practically a well-known fact.

Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. and yet... and yet you act as if there is some ideal order in the world, as if there is some... some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.

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

She was a beefy young woman and, whatever piece of music she was playing, it was definitely losing.

It's always surprising to be reminded that while you're watching and thinking about people, all knowing and superior, they're watching and thinking about you, right back at you.

This book was written using 100% recycled words.