Doctor Fudge

“You can't believe in the Great A'Tuin," he said. "Great A'Tuin exists. There's no point in believing in things that exist."

"Someone's put up their hand," said Urn.

"Yes?"

"Sir, surely only things that exist are worth believing in?" said the enquirer, who was wearing a uniform of a sergeant of the Holy Guard.

"If they exist, you don't have to believe in them," said Didactylos. "They just are." He sighed. "What can I tell you? What do you want to hear? I just wrote down what people know. Mountains rise and fall, and under them the Turtle swims onward. Men live and die, and the Turtle Moves. Empires grow and crumble, and the Turtle Moves. Gods come and go, and still the Turtle Moves. The Turtle Moves."

From the darkness came a voice, "And that is really true?"

Didactylos shrugged. "The Turtle exists. The world is a flat disc. The sun turns round it once every day, dragging its light behind it. And this will go on happening, whether you believe it is true or not. It is real. I don't know about truth. Truth is a lot more complicated than that. I don't think the Turtle gives a bugger whether it's true or not, to tell you the truth.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!”
― David Lynch

“He wanted to go home. He wanted it so much that he trembled at the thought. But if the price of that was selling good men to the night, if the price was filling those graves, if the price was not fighting with every trick he knew . . . then it was too high. [...] What else had the old monk said? History finds a way? Well, it was going to have to come up with something good, because it was up against Sam Vimes now.”
― Terry Pratchett, (Night Watch) By Terry Pratchett (Author) Paperback on