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“This is because if people went around noticing everything that was going on all the time, no one would ever get anything done.”
― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

“One minute life is simple, and then suddenly it stretches away full of complications. “Oh, my,” she said. “I’m a fairy godmother!”
― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

“It’s fifteen hundred miles to Ankh-Morpork,” he said. “We’ve got three hundred and sixty-three elephants, fifty carts of forage, the monsoon’s about to break and we’re wearing…we’re wearing…sort of things, like glass, only dark…dark glass things on our eyes…” His voice trailed off. His brow furrowed, as if he’d just been listening to his own voice and hadn’t understood it. The air seemed to glitter. He saw M’Bu staring at him. He shrugged. “Let’s go,” he said.”
― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

“I’m some poor bastard who’s the victim of some stupid…experiment. What a place! What a situation! What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.”
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal