And the people of Ankh-Morpork are so thirsty for novelty that the whole city is, you might say, hurrying the future along for the sheer joy of watching its progress.

After all, if you can't trust governments, whom can you trust?

Measurements is your saving grace if you want to raise steam.

Anger was a weapon to be honed and treasured and used only at the moment yielding most premium.

In Ankh-Morpork you can be whoever you want to be and sometimes people laugh and sometimes they clap, and mostly and beautifully, they don't really care.

When the brain thinks positively, the hands work positively, the legs run positively and the individual becomes a positive wholesome entity.

Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences.

Anything plus management amounts to success

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason.

America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.

He that gives me small gifts would have me live.

A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.

For the time it takes to make the film, you are treated like a cosseted pet. Then the process is over, and you're hung out to dry. It's like being a mink.

Dad, I wrote. I'm with Alice. Edward's in trouble. You can ground me when I get back. I know it's a bad time. So sorry. Love you so much. Bella.