Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to.

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.

I kill my loneliness by reading and (then) writing, damn.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.

A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

Another argument holds that opposing Saddam Hussein would cause even greater troubles in that part of the world, and interfere with the larger war against terror. I believe the opposite is true.

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.

Education is wonderful - it helps you worry about things all over the world.

When you’ve done everything you can to train yourself for competition, you’ll sleep well when the tournament is over, win or lose.

Listening is one of the forms of love.

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner