There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.

Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association.

Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child.

The short conversation that follows eventually led to a tree religion. Its tenet of faith was this: a tree that was a good tree and led a clean decent and upstanding life could be assured of a future life after death. If it was very good indeed it would eventually be reincarnated as five thousand rolls of lavatory paper.

Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean.

He felt that the darkness was full of unimaginable horrors - and the trouble with unimaginable horrors was that they were only too easy to imagine.

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.