He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'

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.

Extraordinary magic is woven through ordinary life. Look around!

The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.

Yessir, some things is sin 'cause God says so. Some things is sin 'cause they hurt other people. And some things is just pure-dee stupid.

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

We grew up without a television, so we constantly had music playing in our house.

Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.

Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?

I wanted to play a good guy after doing this lunatic on The Sopranos for two years. And then they did the sequel to Bad Boys, where I get to play the barking captain again.

The freedom that money gives you makes you... well, I wouldn't say happy, but I'd say it gives you diversity.

Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.