Quotes from Terry Pratchett, Making Money

The money… will talk?' said Mr Spools carefully.'Imps, ' said Moist. 'They're only a sort of intelligent spell. They don't even have to have a shape. We'll print them on the higher denominations.

The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.

He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.

Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.

. . . you worked for Harry King, they said, because a broken leg was bad for business, and Harry King was all about business.