Curiosity may have killed the cat, but her's curiosity could have massacred a pride of lions.

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.

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?

But there is no value to suffering!

Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It's when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous.

Inevitably the party trying to resolve a matter had to contend with the party most willing to exploit it.

They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.

I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you.

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.

Bad moments don't make bad mommas.

Some of us are inclined to look to the weaknesses and shortcomings of others in order to expand our own comfort zone.