Humans need fantasy to be human.

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.

In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader and say, 'We’re in this together.'

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

The career 500th home run for Michael Jack Schmidt!

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you.

They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space." "Oh," the thin beast said. "Aren't they lonely?

When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development

If you woke up that’s a reason to celebrate.

The gap between the two cars is 0.9 of a second, which is less than one second

Finding the center of strenghth within ourselves is in the long run best contribution we can do to our fellow man