I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor.

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.

You should see it, ” he said. “V for Vendetta, I mean.”“Okay, ” I said. “I’ll look it up.”“No. With me. At my house, ” he said. “Now.

But, for myself, the Earth’s records had taught me to look for widest ruin as the price of highest civilization.

Public opinion: a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for any one of us who is not content to be the average man.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around.

Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.

I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.

You have two people who I would classify as extremists. Donald Trump because of his behavior and Ted Cruz because of his views, leading the Republican Party.

Follow me,” Myrnin said. “And do stay together. And by the way, this is the last time I go anywhere with you people. You are all insane.

We have never meddled in the domestic affairs of any state and we never will.