His granny taught him to read, see. I reckon it overheated his mind.

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

Oh. I see. People don't want to see what can't possibly exist.

It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever, " he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?

How do you get all those coins?" asked Mort.IN PAIRS.

I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY.

And he goes around killing people?” said Mort. He shook his head. “There’s no justice.”Death sighed. No, he said... there’s just me.

It struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was always in the kitchen.

His legend will be written down, eventually, by those who are troubled by it.

Repentance is for little children.

A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.

It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.

Positive feedback makes the strong grow stronger and the weak grow weaker.

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.

Bitterness is a greater failure than failure.

If the economy is growing, people want to employ more workers. If you hire more labor, wages go up.

I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?