“He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.”

“Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.”

“He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people.”

“Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.”

“Lessee...he'd gone off after the funeral and gotten drunk. No, not drunk, another word, ended with "er." Drunker. that was it.”

“If the Creator had said, "Let there be light" in Ankh-Morpork, he'd have got no further because of all the people saying "What colour?”

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”