It’s rude to stare,” said the troll. Its mouth opened with a little crest of foam, and shut again in exactly the same way that water closes over a stone. “Is it? Why?” asked Rincewind....

That’s practically zen.

It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.

Wolves hate werewolves.”What? That can’t be right! When she’s wolf-shaped she’s just like a wolf!”So? When she’s human-shaped she’s just like a human. And what’s that got to do with anything? Humans don’t like werewolves....

That’s the fashion. Fast as the speed of light, they say. Ha! It’s got no soul, sir, no heart.

They are all good lads, said Carrot softly. I’m sure if the two of you call on each and every one of them and explain the situation, they will see where their duty lies. Tell...

Money is all you can think about when all you have is a price, Carrot said

You know it’s going to be Mary the Maid, or someone like her, and there’s going to be two men and she will end up with the nice one, and there has to be misunderstandings,...

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They’re just names for sides. We know that.

There are things so horrible that even the dark is afraid of them. Most people don’t know this and this is just as well because the world could not really operate if everyone stayed in...

Wizards don’t believe in gods. They didn’t deny their existence, of course. They just didn’t believe. It was nothing personal; they weren’t actually rude about it. Gods were a visible part of narrativium that made...

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.

Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that’s who. (…)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily...

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

These were dangerous thoughts, he knew. They were the kind that crept up on a Watchman when the chase was over and it was just you and him, facing one another in that breathless little...

At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don’t know what it is....

Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium.

There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.

Cats do not hunt seals. They would hunt them if they knew what seals and where to find them. But they do not know, so it’s okay.

He enjoyed reading and writing. He liked words. Words didn’t shout or make loud noises, which pretty much defined the rest of his family. They didn’t involve getting muddy in the freezing cold. They didn’t...

People said that there was one law for the rich and one law for the poor, but it wasn’t true. There was no law for those who made the law, and no law for the...

The Empire’s got something worse than whips all right. It’s got obedience. Whips in the soul. They obey anyone who tells them what to do. Freedom just means being told what to do by someone...

That’s why we all hate ’em, he thought. Those expressionless eyes watch us, those big faces turn to follow us, and doesn’t it just look as if they’re making notes and taking names? If you...