I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.

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.

Fear not for the future weep not for the past.

More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.

I don't listen to much modern composition.

War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.

The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.

I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

There is not that many players that really can take over games, signed Candace Parker, I really felt like at that time that a National Championship was certainly in reach.

Every time you defeat a temptation, you become more like Jesus!

Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!

"I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?"