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Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.

Italy is the one country in the world where cyberpunk is a native practice.

What is a brand? A brand is a mark seared into the surface of something.

I've never really liked knees.

Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day

Pressure? There is no pressure. Bird Flu is pressure. No, you laugh, but I am being serious. I am more worried about the swan then I am about football.

It is omelettes and eggs. No eggs – no omelettes. It depends on the quality of the eggs. In the supermarket you have class one, two or class three eggs and some are more expensive than others and some give you better omelettes. So when the class one eggs are in Waitrose and you cannot go there, you have a problem

Rincewind had always been happy to think of himself as a racist. The One Hundred Meters, the Mile, the Marathon -- he'd run them all.

Our minds moved fast and at that point in sync. When others were present, we felt the pace and power diminish, until, a bit like lovers desperate to get to love-making but disturbed by old friends dropping round, we would try to bustle them out, steering them doorwards with a hearty slap on the back.

I'm currently dating a couple of anorexics. Two birds, one stone.

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.

My favourite piece of information is that Branwell Bronte, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in order to prove it could be done.

And therefore education at the University mostly worked by the age-old method of putting a lot of young people in the vicinity of a lot of books and hoping that something would pass from one to the other, while the actual young people put themselves in the vicinity of inns and taverns for exactly the same reason.

You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.