Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.

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.

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.

When you dive into your past, remember to go back up quickly.

The opportunity to see the future was placed in us by God through dreams and visions.

Don't trust everyone, especially if they say, 'Trust me.'

The drop in pending home sales is an affirmation that we are experiencing a modest slowing in the housing sector.

As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.

Sadly, God mentions no crowned nags in Proverbs.

There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced.

My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door.