Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead

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.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Light and love

Dreams become reality once the dreamer goes beyond imagining and acts them out.

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished

You couldn't make the fans throw up their hands if they swallowed their fingers.

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"

I never try to set goals that I know are too tough to achieve or out of my reach.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.