Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized.

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.

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion.

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

Having done several of them and also loving other kinds of movies, I'm also tougher on suspense stories in terms of finding one that really excites and surprises me.

I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions.

As you become more aware of your own imperfections, you simultaneously become more aware of the overall perfection of the universe.

You're an animal, you live, maybe this one time is your lifetime - go there. Who cares what somebody else thinks?

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

I'm not really a Facebook fan because I don't know how to use it! It's so complicated!

Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain.