It is a mystery, ' said Detritus.Vimes grinned mirthlessly. It was a mystery. And he didn't like mysteries. Mysteries had a way of getting bigger if you didn't solve them quickly. Mysteries pupped.

If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.

Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw.It was its tendency to bend at the knees.

WORDS IN THE HEART CANNOT BE TAKEN.

Look at it like this, it's not that we're making life, we're simply giving life a place to live.

Is It Frightening To Be Free?""You said it.""You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?""Seems to be a major human activity, yes.

What a mess the world was in, Vimes reflected. Constable Visit had told him the meek would inherit it, and what had the poor devils done to deserve that?

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 incorrigibly lawless.

Down, boy! Couchant! I said couchant! No! Not rampant!

You Say To People 'Throw Off Your Chains' And They Make New Chains For Themselves?

He wanted one drink, and understood precisely why he wasn't going to have one. One drink ended up arriving in a dozen glasses.

Put great car and value into what you do, and that value grows far more valuable as it spreads out beyond.

I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.

Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the bladder because solid organs are very vascular.

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

As long as I've got the love of the fans, that means everything to me.

New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.

Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

In the name of God, Monsieur, let us have greater confidence in Him than we do; let us allow Him to steer our little bark; if it is useful and pleasing to Him, He will save it from shipwreck.

I never really understood all the hype, until I got one of my own.