History tends to change people who think they're changing it.

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.

For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.

This is the tragedy of knowing my fate: I have seen how it ends, and I will walk right into it, and nothing will change.

It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute.

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.

The role of the designer is basically that of a good host, anticipating the needs of the guest.

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.

The sensations of colors on the palette can be spiritual experiences.

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.