Richard Willis

“Remember the transatlantic phone calls, usually made at Christmas, which were a matter of a vast sum of money and a lot of technical negotiation? And then we spent a lot of time saying, “It’s dark here, is it dark where you are?” and marvelled at the fact that you could have two times at the same time. But recently I rang home while walking through Perth, Australia, to check that the cat was okay. I just dialled the number. It wasn’t very exciting. I didn’t even ask if it was dark.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Nonfiction

“Most people were so many things, some conflicting, that all of their characteristics couldn’t be summed up neatly with tidy words.”
― Cate Lawley, The Cupid Caper

“I was going to be an astronomer, because when you were an astronomer you didn’t have to be in bed by ten.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.”
― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters