Moving Pictures:
Overview
Reality is a curve.
That's not the problem. The problem is that there isn't as much as there should be. According to some of the more mystical texts in the stacks of the library of Unseen University - (...) - at least nine-tenths of all the original reality ever created lies outside the multiverse, and since the multiverse by definition includes absolutely everything that is anything, this puts a bit of a strain on things.
[p. 28]
'You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world?' said Ginger, not paying him the least attention. 'It's all the people who never find out what it is they really want to do or what it is they're really good at. It's all the sons who become blacksmiths because their fathers were blacksmiths. It's all the people who could be really fantastic flute players who grow old and die without ever seeing a musical instrument, so they become bad ploughmen instead. It's all the people with talents who never even find out. Maybe they are never born in a time when it is possible to find out.'
[p. 145]
'How come you know all that stuff?'
'I ain't just a pretty face.'
'You aren't even a pretty face, Gaspode.'
[p. 163]
Real magic is the hand around the bandsaw, the thrown spark in the powder keg, the dimension-warp linking you straight into the heart of a star, the flaming sword that burns all the way to the pommel.
[p. 169]
'Why is it all Mr Dibbler's films are set against the background of a world gone mad?' said the dwarf.
Soll's eyes narrowed. 'Because Mr Dibbler,' he growled, 'is a very observant man.'
[p. 208]
'You don't think you've had enough, do you?' he said.
I KNOW WHEN I'VE HAD ENOUGH.
'Everyone says that, though.
I KNOW WHEN EVERYONE'S HAD ENOUGH.
[p. 248]
What was it they said about gods? They wouldn't exist if there weren't people to believe in them? And that applied to everything. Reality was what went on inside people's heads.
[p. 284]
'There has to be enough light,' he panted, 'to see the darkness.'
[p. 302]
THERE'S JUST ME, said Death. THE FINAL FRONTIER.
[p. 331]