The Last Continent (Discworld, #22)

by Terry Pratchett

‘Pro-active, I think. It’s a word he’s using a lot.’ ‘What does that mean?’ ‘Well … in favour of activity, I suppose.’ ‘Really? Dangerous. In my experience, inactivity sees you through.’

Creators aren’t gods. They make places, which is quite hard. It’s men that make gods. This explains a lot.

Intelligence is like legs – too many and you trip yourself up.

He had always been the foremost exponent of the from rather than the to of running. He could have written ‘The From of Running’. But just occasionally a certain subtle sense told him that the to was important.

He felt as though he was falling into a hole. He’d had the sensation before, although usually it was when he was falling into a hole.