Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often students, for heaven's sake.

He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.

Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt.

"There's a door," he whispered. "Where does it go?" "It stays where it is, I think," said Rincewind.

Look at Satan. Created as an angel, grows up to be the Great Adversary. Hey, if you’re going to go on about genetics, you might as well say the kid will grow up to be an angel. After all, his father was really big in Heaven in the old days. Saying he’ll grow up to be a demon just because his dad became one is like saying a mouse with its tail cut off will give birth to tailless mice. No. Upbringing is everything. Take it from me.