Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid.

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.

Do what you are passionate about. Do it for yourself, nobody else.

It was one thing to talk about ghosts, quite another to have them messing around with things in the physical world.

I am the sun who will bring delight when you are in-front of me. I am the moon who will show shyness when you are away from me.

Law and Order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon.

When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.

Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.

You're anachronistic when you know that your feelings aren't going to have any effect on anything.

To achieve great things requires that we become great people.

The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.