An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

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.

But nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.

Each person walks a journey unique to himself or herself. Live your own journey and run your own race.

God, I want to dream again, take me where I've never been! I want to go there, this time I'm not scared! Now I am unbreakable, it's unmistakable! No one can touch me, nothing can stop me!

In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.

Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone.

As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.

He leaned over her, the sun behind his head making a halo of gold, his face lit by the reflections off the water.

The idea that a prisoner would confess to a complete stranger that he had committed a crime - I just didn't buy that.

Bringing all 45 members of my crazy family together, and watching them argue is super awesome. It's good to do it just once a year.

There's a lot of money to be made by strip-mining and drilling the dirtiest oil on the planet. But why should the rest of us pay the price?