Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

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.

The first thing I understand is pain.

Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.

The average American never loses his sleep about affairs which relate to his society and to our whole country.

Up North you are holding your own. Everyone considers themselves a comedian.

There is a part of me that is not fulfilled by acting. It is a self-involved life; it can feel shallow, but not very often.

For the Democrats, they're trying to avoid having the [Ben] Sanders- [Hillary] Clinton debate over and over again. But, to some degree, they're sentenced to that debate.

And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves.

Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.

My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman.

The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.