A bad hunter chases. A good hunter waits.

There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way.

The worst thing you can do is nothing.

There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.

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.

Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four.

Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant ‘idiot.

...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.

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

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

You never knew about people, like you never knew how deep a pond was because all you saw was the top.

It is the effect of marriage to engender in several directions some of the reserve it annihilates in one.

Posting something that is encouraging and well done compared to something that is trashy and common is the difference between eating a fine meal or the scraps from making that meal.

Aliganaya - 'the embraceduring an intoxicated walk'or 'sudden arousalwhile driving over speed bumps

Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

She’d never felt more alone, even as hundreds of people walked by. No one recognized her, and she began to treasure her anonymity as a gift.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

People's perceptions of their status are just as important as their actual status.

No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.

I'm a little nervous about public funding. It's better than what we got now.

When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.