Flutterby™! : Pratchett on supreme beings

I'm reading Terry Pratchett's latest, Unseen Academicals, and it's living up to expectations. In one passage, The Patrician, some say dictator of the city of Ankh-Morpork, is musing on watching a family of otters feast on a freshly killed salmon and her roe:

One of nature's wonders, gentlemen: mother and children dining upon mother and children. And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.

When I was younger I had a friend who proclaimed that she didn't read fiction. At some point, I realized that I didn't read non-fiction, and it was often the novel that educated me the most on humanity and the world. Pratchett's most recent books have been that way in spades, and Unseen Academicals, a foray into the world of sports (and how they serve the needs of the citizens and the state), doesn't disappoint on that front.