Men at Arms (Discworld, #15; City Watch, #2)

by Terry Pratchett

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes “Boots” theory of socioeconomic unfairness.

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.

“I thought dwarfs didn’t believe in devils and demons and stuff like that.” “That’s true, but…we’re not sure if they know.”

Vimes smiled. Someone was trying to kill him, and that made him feel more alive than he had done for days. And they were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.

Sometimes it’s better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.