Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

They say that the eyes of some paintings can follow you around the room, a fact that I doubt, but I am wondering whether some music can follow you for ever.

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.

If there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trophy and probably everyone’s wallets.

The hated have no reason to love.

After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they looked up to, but somehow a space on the perch was a slap in the face, and treated as such.

Could I please amend that suggestion? Could you not be there in the second darkest shadow one hour before midnight, to see who steps into the darkest shadow?

Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.

How hard can writing be? After all, most of the words are going to be 'and, ' 'the, ' and 'I, ' and 'it, ' and so on, and there's a huge number to choose from, so a lot of the work has been done for you.

All lines are gray in the dark.

There are only four kinds of people in the world.Those who have been caregivers.Those who are currently caregivers.Those who will be caregivers, and those who will need a caregiver.

Denial is a very effective human trick. People often tell how a situation was "unbearable, " though, clearly, they have borne it. Lived to tell, so to speak.

There are three steps you have to complete to become a professional dancer: learn to dance, learn to perform, and learn how to cope with injuries.

It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.

I'd rather look good in my coffin than bad in my coffin.

You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.

I got a label because I was Hispanic and a woman and [therefore] I had to be liberal.

I'm just imagining some of [Mark Lilla] fellow liberals being rather angry at you saying such a thing [that Democrats and liberals, more generally, lost a lot of political capital ].

Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.