Ask me to marry you." "Will you marry me?" "No.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

He who talks much cannot talk well.

Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.

Do you remember the tsar? Well, I‘m like a tsar.

My first strong musical memory is of the Villa-Lobos Sixth Quartet which my parents were rehearsing. I remember that it reminded me of big teddy bears dancing around.

I feel sexier than ever after becoming a mother.

People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.

Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.

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.

Players play, tough players win.