He moved on, in the centre of a widening circle. He wasn't an enemy, he was a nemesis.

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'm at a place in my life where I do finally feel, at least most of the time, that I know who I am and I'm comfortable with the person that I am.

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.

The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.

The best patients are the worst patients. Nudge, nudge, nudge. Don't sit back and accept anything that fails to satisfy you. Speak up, protect your interests.

The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books.

Philosophy is the health of the mind.

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.