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Wizards don't believe in gods in the same way that most people don't find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they're there, they know ...more

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Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

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Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly mus...more

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Ridcully sighed.'All right, you fellows,' he said. 'No magic at Table, you know the rules. Who's playing silly buggers?'The other senior wizards stare...more

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Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty...more

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YOU FEAR TO DIE?"It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break...

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The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not...more

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We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.

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The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy but they were listening in gibberish.

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What's a philosopher?' said Brutha.Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.

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But is all this true?" said Brutha.Didactylos shrugged. "Could be. Could be. We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything te...more

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There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work e...more

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The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god).

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Yes, but humans are more important than animals,' said Brutha.'This is a point of view often expressed by humans,' said Om.

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Thou shalt not submit thy god to market forces.