History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

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.

The garden is a miraculous place, and anything can happen on a beautiful moonlit night.

I am a more modern female vampire since I came just when our world was disappearing due to the intromission of this future.-Enyo

Did you consider anything like the Infected?' Simon had asked.'Not quite. But some of our other contingency plans might help us out with this particular mission.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.

I really believe that in the larger sense, not only today but at all times, you only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

You're shagging a woman who can turn into a dragon? Blast you, Charles, I am sick with envy!

I think like a detective.

Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.