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

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.

… 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.

The truth will set you free (The Bible)

Make a Goal Box, a chart of positive daily contact with a family when you are working with them.

The future of commerce is going to be all electronic. The gold standard was a fine idea, but electronic changes of funds and credits will be the future.

We have killed our souls with comfort instead of seeking fulfillment and achievement.

To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. [Lat., Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed etiam omnino dissoluti.]

Don't be flirting with your gift, you better marry it

Karachi captures all of those rifts between ancient and modern, communal and individual. You see them playing out in people's lives.

He wears the rose Of youth upon him.