Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face." (pp. 348-349)

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.

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee.The teevee debilitates our culture.

We're on the brink of an Adventure. Don't spoil it by asking questions!

The real comic muse is the one underwhose laughing mask tears roll down.

The first time you hold your baby in your arms, I mean, a sense of strength and love washes over you. It washed over me and I never thought that possible.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it.

You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.

Guys have guy/girl relationships so that they can have their own guy thing plus the sensitive thing with the girl.

It's a morality that keeps humans human.