Interesting Times (Discworld, #17; Rincewind, #5)

by Terry Pratchett

There is a curse. They say: May You Live in Interesting Times

According to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle, chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

But he hadn’t been frightened, because he didn’t have the imagination.

He had been forty before he found out that oral sex didn’t mean talking about it.

“whoever holds a knife to the piper’s throat writes the symphony.”

Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, “What happens if I do this?”

someone screamed Rincewind’s nickname, which was: “Don’t let him get away!”