The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged... - Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

"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 a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different. For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led."

"Just because you can explain it doesn't mean it's not still a miracle."

"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you."

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

"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 every day and has a job to do."