A flicker of defiance flared very briefly in Rincewind's battered heart.

The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort.

You haven't really been anywhere until you've got back home.

Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out, " said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.

The universe, they say, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty, and bloody-mindedness.

I tell them stars have never hurt me, I wish I could say the same about people.

Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

For the millions of Americans, like my family, who believe that there is a creator God who can be known personally, Christmas is a celebration of Jesus' offer of love and forgiveness for all people.

I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next.

I had been elected to the National Academy of Design in New York, and one of the requirements was that you give a portrait, a self-portrait of yourself.

It is imperative that good people, men and women of principle, be involved in the political process; otherwise we abdicate power to those whose designs are almost entirely selfish.

The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.

We are co-creators with God, not puppets on a string waiting for something to happen.

A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.

I wish everyone could wake up with a birdie on your shoulder, reminding them that this could be your last day.