He’d always felt he had a right to exist as a wizard in the same way that you couldn’t do proper maths without the number 0, which wasn’t a number at all but, if it went away, would leave a lot of larger numbers looking bloody stupid.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

When it's time to stop living, I will certainly make Death my number one choice!

A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they had got so good at it.

There are, almost by definition, an unlimited number of Hells - potentially at least a personal one for every living sapient being.

The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.

It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings films or is making a point they have never heard of.