“They say the mind can move mountains, I think it can move the whole god damn universe. Or else how have we travelled to other planets?”

“What must I say, that you dont know on your own?”

“They ask me, what will change if we change the perspective?I replied, Everything.”

“They ask me, what will change if we change the perspective?I replied, “Everything.”

“Then Carrot said, "It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness, captain. That's what they say.""What?" Vimes' sudden rage was like a thunderclap. "Who says that? When has that ever been t...”

“What must I say, that you dont know on your own?”

“Regrets are a waste of time and waste of time brings about regrets. It's the best ironic cycle after life and death!”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”