Could I please amend that suggestion? Could you not be there in the second darkest shadow one hour before midnight, to see who steps into the darkest shadow?

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever.

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.

If there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trophy and probably everyone’s wallets.

The hated have no reason to love.

After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they looked up to, but somehow a space on the perch was a slap in the face, and treated as such.

Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.

How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be 'and, ' 'the, ' and 'I, ' and 'it, ' and so on, and there's a huge number to choose from, so a lot of the work has been done for you.

It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst

Let every lady in Camlochlin swoon over a charming smile. She had won the love of a man who shared his most intimate smiles for her alone

To be on the alert is to live to be lulled into security is to die.

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

Josiah has a tremendous reputation in the text. He rediscovered the Book of the Law; you remember how Hilkiah the High Priest somehow found it [2 Kings 22:8].

Man's books are but a climbing stair, Lain step by step, like stairs of stone; The stairway here, the temple there - Man's lampad honor, and his trust, The God who called him from the dust.

When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step.

I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going.

I talk too much. I eat too much.