I imagine that fish have no word for water.

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.

Watching Jace hug Isabelle, she tried to school her features into a happy and loving expression."Are you all right?" Simon asked, with some concern. "Your eyes are crossing.

To Savor The Scene, A Book, or A Friend.

Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?

Your greatest competence are your courage and confident.

You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career.

Canadians are fond of darker stories, serious stories, so if you're a Mystery writer or a Romance writer or Fantasy Writer, you will most likely have an American publisher and agent.

Well, I'm lucky because, you see, I'll probably bounce back from this role.

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet

Work-life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don't really want balance. We want satisfaction.

The fact that the scrub literally comes out into your hand as a powder and then activates with water is a really cool thing.