I don't think it's like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It's really another form of cancer, television.

In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.

If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work.

There are no manners left in America at all, because all you're doing is kicking the person next to you so that you can consume more, see more, and get more.

I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television.

I think fame is something that you've achieved in your inner self that becomes known to others outside you. There are really very few famous people in history.

No one looks at a television, and no one hears it. It's a poison.

I've never been in fashion. Not at all.

There's the world of the newspapers. They believe that what is happening is happening, which is so naïve. Because they're the first to turn on that.

I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I'm more interested in the past.

None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback. People find them, they like them, and they pass them on.

If your focus is on your failures, limitations, & fears, you've one sure destination. You'll get drowned. If not now, at the end of the day!

Correction is the tool for creating better from worse. Make the best use of it!

There was always so much I didnt know, but not knowing was part of it all.

Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.

And I am revealed for exactly what I am - a particularly stupid fish, moving from hook to hook, never learning my lesson.

Basically, therefore, we should approach others openly, recognizing each person as another human being just like ourselves. There is not much difference between us all.

I make a list of what I have in common, and what I don't have in common, with someone I'm playing

The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.

Sitting tightens your chest. For a great release, lie faceup on a foam roller placed lengthwise under your spine, and stretch your arms out to your side.

Jesus Christ reveals, not an embarrassed God, not a confused God, not a God who stands apart from the problems, but One who stands in the thick of the whole thing with man.