Not all questions are answered, but fortunately some answers are questioned.
The truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.
A bad hunter chases. A good hunter waits.
Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.
Things just happen. What the hell.
The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week?
Education had been easy. Learning things had been harder.
Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he’d never found a reason not to be.
That was the very centre of his genius – he invented things that anyone could have thought of, and men who can invent things that anyone could have thought of are very rare men.
Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because – what with trolls and dwarfs and so on – speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.
In her own special category, she was quite beautiful. This was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who had ever thought he was worth smiling at.
The students were staring at her in the manner of those who have heard of the species ‘female’ but have never expected to get this close to one.
Somewhere around the place I’ve got an unfinished short story about Schrodinger’s Dog; it was mostly moaning about all the attention the cat was getting.
They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.
Asking someone to repeat a phrase you’d not only heard very clearly but were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II in the lexicon of squabble.
You need to believe in things that aren’t true. How else can they become?
There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn’t rule the world. They’re called Witches and Wizards.
The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedne ss.
Some of them wanted to sell me snake oil and I’m not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have never found a rusty snake.
Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn’t always beat actual thought.