“So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn't received and that might have been eaten by gargoyles.”

“It is well known that any drive to reduce paperwork only results in extra paperwork”

“I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork.”

“So much universe, and so little time.”

“No other library anywhere, for example, has a whole gallery of unwritten books - books that would have been written if the author hadn't been eaten by an alligator around chapter 1, and so on. Atlases of imaginary places. Dictionaries of illusory words. Spotter's guides to invisible things. Wild thesauri in the Lost Reading Room. A library so big that it distorts reality and has opened gateways to all other libraries, everywhere and everywhen...”

“On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed.”

“They shed a rather unpleasant glow that didn't so much illuminate, as outline the darkness.”